vicegerent

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They were the years when Coolidge said of war debts, "They hired the money," when Charles Dawes was Coolidge's vicegerent in Europe, wearing laurels won with the Dawes Plan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am His sword, His weapon and His vicegerent.

From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War by Raemaekers, Louis

The head of the church was an acknowledged vicegerent of Him who was styled in scripture Lord of all the kingdoms of the earth.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

This was a serious charge against the Pope's vicegerent It could not, it must not be admitted.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William