proconsulship
- a variation of proconsulate.
Example Sentences
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Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age.
From Time Magazine Archive
A more wonderful journey than any possible earthly one, a more majestic adventure than that of any oriental proconsulship, awaited him.
From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas
Quintus is not thinking of any proconsulship he may win, or even of the love light in the eyes of Lucretia, as he climbs again the heights of Scopus.
From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton
He was accused of malversation in his proconsulship of Asia, B.C.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
In 143 he was consul for two months, but declined the proconsulship of Asia on the ground of ill-health.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
