tribuneship

tribune +‎ -ship

tribuneship (countable and uncountable, plural tribuneships)

1. (historical) The office of tribune
   • 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book IV‎:

     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.

2. (historical) The period in which a person serves as tribune
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II.‎:

     The crimes which had disgraced the stormy tribuneship of Shaftesbury had been fearfully expiated.

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

     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.

• tribunate