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tribuneships

tribuneships is the plural of tribuneship.

Meaning of tribuneship

Noun

tribuneship (countable and uncountable, plural tribuneships)

  1. (historical) The office of tribune
    • But the burgesses acquitted him; and now he too threw down the gauntlet, became a candidate for the tribuneship of the people, and was nominated to that office for the year 631 in an elective assembly attended by unusual numbers.1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book IV
  2. (historical) The period in which a person serves as tribune
    • The crimes which had disgraced the stormy tribuneship of Shaftesbury had been fearfully expiated.1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Questions about tribuneships

What is tribuneships the plural of?
Tribuneships is the plural of tribuneship.

Words near tribuneships in the dictionary

  1. tribunates
  2. tribune
  3. tribune of the plebs
  4. tribunes
  5. tribuneship
  6. tribuneships
  7. tribunicial
  8. tribunician
  9. Tribunite
  10. Tribunites
  11. tribunitial

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