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

In tongue she was very sharp, and in secret was proud of the power she possessed in making the vicegerent of God afraid of her.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

The ideal majesty of Jove was merging, as an object of veneration, in the actual majesty of Caesar, regarded as the vicegerent of the Supreme Power.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

About the same time the constitutional party rose against Ali’s vicegerent Mahommed, son of Abu Bekr, who had been the leader of the murderous attack on Othman.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various