tribuneship

plural tribuneships

1. countablehistoricaluncountableThe 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. countablehistoricaluncountableThe 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.

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   He also wanted to found a colony of plebeians on the ruins of Carthage, and when his tribuneship was over he went to Africa to see about it; but when he came home the patricians had arranged an attack on him, and he was insulted by the lictor of the consul Opimius.

   1880, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Young Folks' History of Rome