vice-regent
Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of vice-regent
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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A vice-regent, a Son of David, will occupy David’s throne in Jerusalem.
From Studies in Zechariah by Arno C. Gaebelein
Most Europeans consider man as the centre and lord of the world or, if they are very religious, as its vice-regent under God.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
But on a grey day the larkspur looks like fallen heaven; the red daisies are really the red lost eyes of day; and the sunflower is the vice-regent of the sun.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The eighty white-clad brethren looked with half resentful, half amused eyes as they listened to this frank address to one who, in their small lives, seemed to be the direct vice-regent of Heaven.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mrs. Mildred L. Allee of Omaha was nominated for state regent at the conference in 1902, and Mrs. Emma Kellogg of Lincoln for vice-regent.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
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