Vicegerent

Quick meaning: Vicegerent is a noun meaning The official administrative deputy of a ruler, head of state, or church official.

Meaning

The official administrative deputy of a ruler, head of state, or church official.

More Meanings

1. Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.

Example Sentences

But whom ſend I to judge them? whom but thee / Vicegerent Son, to thee I have transferr'd / All Judgement whether in Heav'n, or Earth, or Hell

1876, The Month, volume 25, 139, In 1574, James, Cardinal Savelli, the Cardinal Vicar, a prelate most exact in sacred and ecclesiastical ceremonies, appointed him his suffragan, or as it would now be termed, Vicegerent.

1944, Raphael Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, 2005 (with new introduction), The Lawbook Exchange, page 100, The Vicegerent was appointed by royal Italian decree of April 22, 1939. He represents in Albania the absent King and exercises in his name the rights of sovereignty.

1994, Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Islam, Economics, and Society, 2013, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge), page 25, By virtue of his freedom, man can either realize his theomorphic virtuality of being God's vicegerent on earth or deny himself this exalted niche by making the wrong choice.

Word Forms

• vicegerents

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include viceregent, vicegerency, vicegerentship, vizier, viceregency, legate.

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