vicegerent

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Latin vicegerens.

But whom send I to judge them? whom but thee, Vicegerent Son? — Paradise Lost, John Milton
In Dante's eyes the one great officer was as much God's vicegerent as the other. — The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
What were their means of conduct-ing their governments, of exercising this office of Heaven's vicegerents? — Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects, William Hone

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