tribuneshipn.
/ˈtrɪbjuːnʃɪp/, /ˈtrʌɪbjuːnʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈtrɪbjunˌʃɪp/ The office of a Roman or other tribune; the term of this office. Also transferred.
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1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline li. f. 74v The senate decreed, that Metellus shuld leaue vp his trybuneshyp and Cesar his pretorshyp.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 877 This Tribuneship having taken originally the first beginning from the common people, is great and mighty in regard that it is popular.
1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. xiii. 72 The accustomed Religion help'd well..for the restitution of the Tribunship to the Nobility.
1757 J. Ward in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 699 The year 50, which answers to the ninth tribuneship of Claudius.
1842 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xv. §6. 440 Becoming a candidate for the tribuneship,..[he] was elected without much opposition.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 41 The crimes which had disgraced the stormy tribuneship of Shaftesbury.
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