god's-vicegerent

Updated: May 9, 2025

And you will get your crown well rapped, M. le Marechal, for so forgetting that fact! France is an extremely pretty creature; but this of making France the supreme Governor and God's-Vicegerent of Nations, is, was, and remains, one of the maddest notions.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12