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 services rendered by the Templars are thus gratefully recorded in the following letter sent by Louis, the French king, to his minister and vicegerent, the famous Suger, abbot of St. Denis.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
The influence of Nippur had waned before that of Eridu, and out of Eridu had risen a culture-god whose son and vicegerent was the sun.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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
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