Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that rules or manages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing; carrying; carrying on: now used only in composition: as, vicegerent, belli gerent.
- noun A ruling power or agency; a doer or performer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Bearing; carrying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
manager
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And, first, see you, sir — ye shall approach the presence of majesty thus, — shadowing your eyes with your hand, to testify that you are in the presence of the Vice-gerent of
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"Irishum the vice gerent of the god Ashur, the son of Ilushuma the vice gerent of the god Ashur, unto the god Ashur, his Lord, for his own life and for the life of his son has dedicated".
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He announced himself as God's vice-gerent on earth and Germany as God's chosen nation.
The Prussian Mind 1917
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This Vial initiates a direct attack on the throne of the Beast, the vice-gerent of
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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God, "the upper Jerusalem," a body visible in no one locality, but dispersed over the earth like wheat in chaff, held together by no declarations of doctrine, tied to no sacraments, dependent on no earthly Lieutenant or Vice-gerent, and on no university-trained
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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Page 46 explanations and protestations followed; then curses and hissing epithets were showered down freely upon the head of the presumptuous wretch -- the vice-gerent of "Old Nick" -- who was the cause of all the trouble.
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He _was_ mistaken, and I hold that the Bāb was mistaken in appointing (if he really did so) Ṣubḥ-i-Ezel as a nominal head of the Bābīs when the true, although temporary vice-gerent was Baha-'ullah.
The Reconciliation of Races and Religions Thomas Kelly Cheyne 1878
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Was not he the representative of the Unseen, the vice-gerent, with power over heaven and hell? but something was here more strong than he.
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Church, and in solemn coronation to place the imperial crown on the head anointed by the hands of God's vice-gerent.
Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843
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Douglas, I will give my people and all the world proof that I am still God's righteous and avenging vice-gerent on earth, and that no consideration can restrain my wrath, no after-thought stay my arm, whenever it is ready to fall and smite the head of the guilty.
Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843
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