proˈconsulship
[f. proconsul + -ship.]
The office or position of a proconsul.
| 1581 Savile Tacitus, Agricola (1622) 200 Now the yeere was at hand, when as the Proconsulship of Asia or Africke should be alotted vnto him. 1631 Massinger Believe as You List iv. i, And, shoulde shee begge your procunsulship, yf you heard her, 'Twere her's, upon my life. 1741 Middleton Cicero (L.), This..is shewn by the letters [of Cicero] during his proconsulship. 1807 Europ. Mag. LII. 443/2 One of the..coadjutors of the sanguinary Collot d'Herbois, during the dreadful period of his proconsulship at Lyons. 1976 Church Times 25 June 11/4 The only absolutely firm date in the whole of the New Testament is the proconsulship of Gallio, shown by an inscription to have begun in the early summer of 51. |