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tribuneship|ˈtrɪbjuːnʃɪp, ˈtraɪ-|
[f. tribune n.1 + -ship.]
The office of a Roman or other tribune; the term of this office. Also transf.
1541Paynel Catiline li. 74 b, The senate decreed, that Metellus shuld leaue vp his trybuneshyp and Cesar his pretorshyp. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 877 This Tribuneship having taken originally the first beginning from the common people, is great and mighty in regard that it is popular. 1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. Livy I. xiii. 72 The accustomed Religion help'd well..for the restitution of the Tribunship to the Nobility. 1756Ward in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 699 The year 50, which answers to the ninth tribuneship of Claudius. 1842W. C. Taylor Anc. Hist. xv. §6 (ed. 3) 440 Becoming a candidate for the tribuneship,..[he] was elected without much opposition. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 41 The crimes which had disgraced the stormy tribuneship of Shaftesbury. |