vice-regent
Americannoun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of vice-regent
First recorded in 1550–60
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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
You wish to free Italy alone, and alone rule her as Justinian's vice-regent.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
His wife especially had been as great a success as the vice-regent.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew
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 M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
She is the vice-regent in a kingdom where the mother is queen.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
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