Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The official administrative deputy of a regent; vicegerent.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word viceregent.

Examples

  • I know few evangelicals who would argue that the Medieval Catholic Church that spawned the Reformation was God's viceregent on earth and yet that was the situation that was allowed to pesist for a thousand years.

    Inigo Montoya Addresses Fundamentalists James F. McGrath 2009

  • “Hearing (the word of Allah) and obeying” (His prophet, viceregent, etc.) 174 Arab.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He chooseth of them whomso He please to make him His viceroy and viceregent over

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Is it because the white man is the created viceregent of government?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Is it because the white man is the created viceregent of government?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Is it because the white man is the created viceregent of government?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Is it because the white man is the created viceregent of government?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Is it because the white man is the created viceregent of government?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • And God's viceregent at Port Arthur slammed the door.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • But if God was just, and violence was offensive to him, he would be displeased with that of his viceregent, and allow his injured people who were not admitted to communion with the latter, to offer up their prayers to himself.

    The History of Florence 2003

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.