Vicegerent

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Vicegerent is the official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state: vice (Latin: in place of) + gerere (Latin: to carry on, conduct).[1]

Notable vicegerents

  • Thomas Cromwell, Vicegerent of Henry VIII, appointed 1535.
  • The Byzantine Emperors held as a title "God's Vicegerent on Earth".
  • Milton, in his work Paradise Lost, titles the Son "The Vicegerent", in Book 10.

Notes

  1. ↑ Random House Dictionary (2009 ed.)
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