tribuneship

American  

[trib-yoon-ship, tri-byoon-ship] / ˈtrɪb yunˌʃɪp, trɪˈbyunˌʃɪp /

noun

1. the position or tenure of a tribune.

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Example Sentences

Upon his accession to the tribuneship Clodius procured the disgrace of Cicero, and after his flight to Greece, obtained a decree of banishment against him.

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For a moment, even while I cried to them, and shook my hands to them to be silent, there flashed on me the things it meant; the things they had to give, power and tribuneship!

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He failed to secure the tribuneship for the third time, and his bitter enemy L. Opimius was elected consul.

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The latter became a candidate for the tribuneship; but being disqualified by his high birth, he got himself adopted into that for which nature had best adapted him—a very low family.

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Of those orations of Cicero which have entirely perished, the greatest loss has been sustained by the disappearance of the defence of Cornelius, who was accused of practices against the state during his tribuneship.

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