vice-regent

American  

[vahys-ree-juhnt, vahys-ree-juhnt] / ˈvaɪsˈri dʒənt, vaɪsˈri dʒənt /

noun

1. a deputy regent; a person who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or occupying the position of a vice-regent.

Other Word Forms

• vice-regency
  noun

Etymology

Origin of vice-regent

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

Such was this remarkable man as first seen by the English, "venerated as God's vice-regent through all the eastern countries of Asia."

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

Gregory's aim was to establish a theocracy through an organised dominant priesthood separated from the world, but no less powerful than the secular forces; with the pope, God's mouthpiece, and vice-regent, at its head.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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

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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

During the king's minority the Archbishop was the vice-regent.

From The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela