vicegerent
Example Sentences
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The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 sultan himself, the great head of the nation and the religion, the vicegerent of God upon earth, has taken off the turban, and all the officers of government have followed his example.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
Merodach, the great lord, the restorer of his people, beheld with joy the deeds of his vicegerent, who was righteous in hand and heart.
From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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 William Hogan
