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 head of the church was an acknowledged vicegerent of Him who was styled in scripture Lord of all the kingdoms of the earth.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

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.

This was granted easiest of all; besides, the second Imperial vicegerent of the paternal supremacy, Augusti, was appointed to the business in question.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich