vicegerency

[ vahys-jeer-uhn-see ]

noun

, plural vice·ge·ren·cies.

1. the position, government, or office of a vicegerent.
2. the territory or district under a vicegerent.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vicegerency¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; viceger(ent) + -ency

Example Sentences

We have, then, the two Powers set forth as two Vicegerences of God, in the government of His human world: the temporal Vicegerency belonging to each sovereignty for the country which it rules, so far as the sphere of that sovereignty extends; the Spiritual Vicegerency belonging to His one spiritual kingdom in all times and places in the sphere of its sovereignty.

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Here we are in presence of two societies, the authority in each of which is a divine Vicegerency, whose subject is the same man, whether individual or collective.

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Leo XIII. in his encyclical June 1881, declares civil power to be a vicegerency from God, 20.

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Whenever they have massacred, immolated, or incarcerated those who have dared to dispute their vicegerency, or who have presumed to expose their doctrines, or denounce their practices, they have quoted this imposition as their authority.

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The hierarchy of the gods is modelled upon that of Babylonia, and the ideas of mediation and vicegerency are transferred to heaven.

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