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
But from henceforward he had to share his divine honours with another; Bel of Nippur, indeed, conferred the sovereignty, but the sovereign was priest and vicegerent of Anu.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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
