Vicegerent
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Vicegerent is the official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state: vice (Latin: in place of) + gerere (Latin: to carry on, conduct).[1]
[edit] Related usage
- The Byzantine Emperors held as a title "God's Vicegerent on Earth".
- Milton, in his work Paradise Lost, titles the Son "The Vicegerent", in Book 10.
- "Vicegerent of God" is the concept in Islam which states that mankind is the vicegerent of Allah on Earth.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Random House Dictionary (2009 ed.)
