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Definition of Proconsulates
1. proconsulate [n] - See also: proconsulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proconsulates
Literary usage of Proconsulates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Constantine and Eugene, Or An Evening at Mount Vernon by Charles Kelsall (1818)
"Touching the proconsulates, I have also this to suggest, that they should be
filled as often as possible by civil individuals ..."
2. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, George A. Bailey, Franklin Rives (1853)
"The contempt of Rome for " foreign races speaking foreign languages," caused the
establishment of her proconsulates, and, as she grew in territory, ..."
3. A History of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1891)
"... though he destroyed chateaux and used forced labour to make roads, never
arrested a single person.1 Similarly mild were the proconsulates of Lejeune of ..."
4. The Apostolic Fathers: A Revised Text with Introductions, Notes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1889)
"The following list relating to the two proconsulates in the second century is
drawn up with the aid ... The years here given for the proconsulates are the ..."
5. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1892)
"Prefectures and proconsulates were also bestowed on a son, a son- in-law, and a
nephew of the favoured tutor, and in the year 379 he himself was raised to ..."
6. China, Her History, Diplomacy, and Commerce: From the Earliest Times to the by Edward Harper Parker (1917)
"3. The internal administrative expenditure of each province. 4. Garrisons,
proconsulates, residents, etc., in Mongolia and Tibet. ..."
7. China, Her History, Diplomacy, and Commerce: From the Earliest Times to the by Edward Harper Parker (1917)
"3. The internal administrative expenditure of each province. 4. Garrisons,
proconsulates, residents, etc., in Mongolia and Tibet. ..."
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