Definitions

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  • noun The office or position of a legate.

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  • noun The office of a legate.

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  • noun The office or authority of a legate.

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  • noun the post or office of legate

Etymologies

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legate +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • He was the man who, as an ambitious tribune, had proposed the laws that secured Pompey his unprecedented military powers, and he had duly been rewarded with a legateship under Pompey in the East.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Or you could go to Caesar and ask if his offer of a legateship still stands, and claim immunity.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • NEPOS, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother of Celer and brother-in-law of Pompey, who sends him back from his legateship in the East to stand for the tribuneship and guard his interests in Rome

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • The law was passed, Lucullus was stripped of his command, and Gabinius was given his legateship.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • The law was passed, Lucullus was stripped of his command, and Gabinius was given his legateship.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • In fact, if you do get a military legateship to tide you over the next two or three years, I expect you to take my sons with you to your war.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • The incredible meanness of the praemunire, and consequent confiscation, which the cardinal was pronounced to have incurred for obtaining the cardinalate and legateship from Rome -- though of course this had been done with the king's full knowledge and consent

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Albano in the legateship, to threaten Philip with laying an interdict on all his dominions.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743

  • Pandulf, who was restored to his legateship, was active in suppressing this rebellion; and with the concurrence of eleven bishops, he pronounced the sentence of excommunication against Albemarle and his adherents: [*] an army was levied: a scutage of ten shillings a knight's fee was imposed on all the military tenants.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743

  • His disappointment was acute when Pope Innocent gave the appointment instead to Theobald of Bec, and Henry made his displeasure so clear and the influence he could bring to bear so obvious that Innocent, either in a genuine wish to recognize his undoubted ability or in pure exasperation and malice, had given him, by way of consolation, the papal legateship in England, thus making him in fact superior to the archbishop, a measure hardly calculated to endear either of them to the other.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

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