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
Subprior, sub′prī-or, n. the vicegerent, deputy, or assistant of a prior.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Brother Peter de Montaigu, humble Master of the soldiers of Christ, to our vicegerent and beloved brother in Christ, Alan Marcel, Preceptor of England.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
This was granted easiest of all; besides, the second Imperial vicegerent of the paternal supremacy, Augusti, was appointed to the business in question.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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