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Definition of Proconsul
1. Noun. An official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power.
2. Noun. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
3. Noun. An anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul.
Definition of Proconsul
1. n. An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.
Definition of Proconsul
1. Noun. (context: in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province ¹
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Definition of Proconsul
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