vicegerent
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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 Stephens, John Lloyd
He would never have joined Plutarch and Dion in exalting the emperor to the rank of vicegerent of God.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
The king accordingly was not a representative and vicegerent of the god, like a Babylonian prince; he represented the god Assur only because he represented the city of Assur.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
