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

Abbas, the vicegerent of Ali at Basra and ancestor of the future Abbasid dynasty, was in command.

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

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 Hogan, William

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