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
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 Samuel Dill
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
Afterwards Ibn al-Hanafiya seems to have acknowledged him distinctly as his vicegerent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
