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plural praetorships
(history) The office or term of a praetor. quotations
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 […]