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What is the noun for proconsul?

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proconsulate
  1. (historical) The office of a proconsul.
  2. (historical) The district under proconsul’s government.
proconsul
  1. (in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His inattention provides a foil for the conversion of the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus at the center of the image.”
      “Why not go the full hog and ask Dublin to send a proconsul to the loyal colony?”
      “Rather, he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country.”
proconsulship
  1. The office or status of a proconsul; a proconsulate.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Recalled to Rome, Agricola lived in retirement, having refused the proconsulship of Asia.”
      “The coalition provisional authority under the proconsulship will cease to exist, replaced by a new interim Iraqi government.”
      “The inscription below the pediment indicates that the temple was dedicated in 183-4 by a Roman senator who had risen to hold the proconsulship of Asia.”
proconsulships
  1. plural of proconsulship
proconsulates
  1. plural of proconsulate
proconsuls
  1. plural of proconsul
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.”
      “Above all their proconsuls and representatives must let themselves be seen and talk to the people.”
      “The proconsuls had few illusions about the nature of the tasks they set themselves or of the people whom they hoped to liberate.”
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