Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to, or occupying the position of, a vice-regent.
- noun A deputy regent; one who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign.
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- noun a regent's deputy
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Examples
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I am appointing you vice-regent in spiritual matters.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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I am appointing you vice-regent in spiritual matters.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The Quran explains that humankind holds a privileged position among God's creations on Earth: he or she is chosen as khalifa, "vice-regent" and is entrusted with an amana - the responsibility of caring for God's earthly creations.
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The Quran explains that humankind holds a privileged position among God's creations on Earth: he or she is chosen as khalifa, "vice-regent" and is entrusted with an amana - the responsibility of caring for God's earthly creations.
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I am appointing you vice-regent in spiritual matters.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The Quran explains that humankind holds a privileged position among God's creations on Earth: he or she is chosen as khalifa, "vice-regent" and is entrusted with an amana - the responsibility of caring for God's earthly creations.
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As such he has been made God's vice-regent, as it were.
Why Liberal Christianity Isn't Bankrupt James F. McGrath 2009
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Kingship by his son Shaddad the Less, whom he left vice-regent in
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When Allah, it is said, informed the celestial throng that he was about to send a vice-regent on earth, they deprecated the design.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Many Iranians were troubled by the idea that a man they had elected to the mundane office of the presidency, knowing they could oust him, had become the unchallengeable vice-regent of God.
Who Rules Iran? Bellaigue, Christopher de 2002
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