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

They made a pilgrimage to Rome, where the vicegerent of Christ was to re-invigorate consumptive German art with asses' milk.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

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 ideal majesty of Jove was merging, as an object of veneration, in the actual majesty of Caesar, regarded as the vicegerent of the Supreme Power.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.