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pretorship

pretorship is the alternative form of praetorship.

Meaning of praetorship

Noun

praetorship (plural praetorships)

  1. The office or term of a praetor.
    • The same night, wherein the Pretorship was refused him, he passed over in play.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of pretorship

pluralpretorships

Questions about pretorship

What is pretorship the alternative form of?
Pretorship is the alternative form of praetorship.

Words near pretorship in the dictionary

  1. pretorians
  2. pretorium
  3. pretoriums
  4. pretornal
  5. pretors
  6. pretorship
  7. pretorships
  8. pretorture
  9. pretotype
  10. pretotyped
  11. pretotypes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretorship (page history and authors); praetorship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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