Definitions for vicegerent

vicegerent vice·ge·rent

Spelling: [vahys-jeer-uh nt]
IPA: /vaɪsˈdʒɪər ənt/

Vicegerent is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in vicegerent (ceeeginrtv).

Definitions for vicegerent

noun

  1. an officer appointed as deputy by and to a sovereign or supreme chief.
  2. a deputy in general.

adjective

  1. exercising delegated powers.
  2. characterized by delegation of powers.

Origin of vicegerent

1530-40; New Latin vicegerent- (stem of vicegerēns managing instead of), equivalent to Latin vice (see vice3) + gerent- (stem of gerēns, present participle

Examples for vicegerent

Mark, O assembled people, the infinite mercy of the vicegerent of Allah!

The bishop is regarded by the Catholics as the vicegerent of Heaven.

A king in the seventeenth century was supposed to be the vicegerent of the Deity.

You are not God's vicegerent; you are another's than his, I think!

But, though the Prince might be dead, had he not left a vicegerent behind him?

He demanded of his vicegerent what remedy he had to suggest, and Cromwell had none.

Gentlemen, the King is the vicegerent of God, and has no superior.

He professed to be gentle and innocent as a lamb,—to be the vicegerent of the "Lamb of God."

He brought with him a vicario, or vicegerent, and a doctor of laws.

The Pope became to them the vicegerent of the great Power which they adored.

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