Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy.
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Examples
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He demanded and received the title of Viceroy of New France—literally vice-king for North America.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He demanded and received the title of Viceroy of New France—literally vice-king for North America.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The square of the cathedral was covered by an immense crowd, through which the Emperor advanced on horseback, accompanied by his imperial Highness, the vice-king, and his staff.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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This is what I would not undertake to decide; but I can affirm that my informant gave it as the truth, and was perfectly certain that the particulars would be found in the archives of Milan, since this extraordinary initiation was at the time the subject of a circumstantial report addressed to the vice-king, whom fate had determined should nevermore see the Emperor.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The vice-king and vice-queen had never met before their marriage, but were soon as much attached to each other as if they had been acquainted for years, for never were two persons more perfectly congenial.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Emperor to return to Naples; but Prince Murat and the vice-king accompanied his Majesty.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The vice-king, fearing the crowd as much as the fire for his wife, took her out through a little door that had been cut in the platform in order to serve refreshments to their Majesties.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Stuttgard, during which, in the first of these two capitals, the marriage of the vice-king and the Princess of Bavaria was celebrated.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The Emperor was deeply interested in the news he received from Posen, where the general headquarters were in the latter part of February and beginning of March, and where the prince vice-king had under his orders only the remains of different corps, some of which were represented by a very small number of men.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The vice-king only learned of the arrival of his step-father when he was half a league from the town, but came in haste to meet us escorted only by a few persons.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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