the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The office of a consul; consulate.
n. The term of office of a consul.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The office or the term of office of a consul, in either the political or the diplomatic sense of the word: as, the consulship of Cicero. See consul.
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n. the post of consul
Word Usage
"This exalted idea of the consulship is borrowed from an oration (iii.p. 107) pronounced by Julian in the servile court of Constantius."