Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a proconsul, or the term of his office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.
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- noun historical The
office of aproconsul . - noun historical The district under
proconsul ’s government.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of proconsul
Etymologies
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Examples
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Julius Caesar decided he didn't want to be criminally prosecuted at the end of his proconsulate, so he simply overthrew the whole kit and caboodle and became a dictator.
Saying it's "time for reflection, not retribution," Obama rejects prosecuting CIA agents for interrogations. Ann Althouse 2009
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I granted him this request also and gave him a letter with which he set off to Carthage, where Lollianus Avitus, the term of his proconsulate having neariy expired, was awaiting your arrival, Maximus.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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I granted him this request also and gave him a letter with which he set off to Carthage, where Lollianus Avitus, the term of his proconsulate having neariy expired, was awaiting your arrival, Maximus.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Afar, half hidden in lingering twilight, Jerusalem of the Herodian kings and the Roman proconsulate crouched on its hills.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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Afar, half hidden in lingering twilight, Jerusalem of the Herodian kings and the Roman proconsulate crouched on its hills.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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The year now arrived in which the proconsulate of Asia or Africa must fall by lot upon Agricola; [136] and as Civica had lately been put to death, Agricola was not unprovided with a lesson, nor Domitian with an example.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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[137] Suetonius relates that Civica Cerealis was put to death in his proconsulate of Asia, on the charge of meditating a revolt.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Mammæa, the mother of the new sovereign, surrounded her son with skilled helpers of proved value, and it was possibly due to her wisdom that Dio was first sent to manage the proconsulate of Africa, and, on his return, to govern the imperial provinces of Dalmatia and Upper
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Thus his proconsulate is perhaps the purest and most honorable passage in his life.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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She has compared our mild and forbearing government with the savage proconsulate of Alva in the Netherlands!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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