Meaning

Alternative form of viceroy..

Example Sentences

Among theſe are reckoned, a Hiſtory (in good repute) of the great men of Sicily, Palermo, 1704, 4to. and a Hiſtory of the Vice-rois of Sicily, ibid. 1697, folio.

The vice-roi of Italy with a central army also of 80,000 men, composed of his own corps and of that of Saint-Cyr, was to throw himself between the two Russian armies, and to cut off their communication.

The prosperity of Antwerp, once so great, began to decline under the tyranny of the cruel Duke of Alva, the vice-roi of Philip II of Spain.

You find, however, a curious collection of portraits of all the vice-rois and first presidents of Peru, from Columbus down to the Grand-Marshal Lamar.

And in the letters to the vice-rois, although she used all the humble phraseology of a language which is full of such phrases, yet there is an unbending pride and independence behind it all.

He was the vice-roi of Hicem and absolutely refused to be drawn into any lengthy discussion.

The bribee was the Vice-roi of Liang-kwang (Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces), the bribe was 20,000 (or 200,000) ducats; […]

His continued struggle in the Law Courts, his thought-provoking arguments in the press, his petitions to the Governor, to the Secretary of State for the colonies, and sometimes to the Vice-Roi of India were all his Satyagraha strategy, which he had been experimenting in this country.

Word Forms

• vice-rois

When Should You Use Vice-roi?

Use vice-roi when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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