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 Koran is law, the Shah being looked upon as the vicegerent of the prophet.

From Alden's Handy Atlas of the World by Alden, John B.

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

We love you, O commander of the faithful! our master, the good Emir Fakreddin, loves you also: he reveres, in your person, the vicegerent of Mahomet.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William