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
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
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 Addison, Charles G.
The vicegerent had taken to himself all the attributes of the deity, the adopted son succeeded to the rights and powers of his divine father.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
