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viceroy
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Definition:a ruler of a colony on behalf of a sovereignroi is French for "king", so this is basically "vice-king"
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King: Harry, I hereby name thee, Captain of the Guard, Grand Warden of the Northern and Eastern Marches, Chief Lunatic of the Duchy of Gloucester, Viceroy of Wales, Sheriff of Nottingham, Marquis of the Midlands, Lord Hoe-Maker in ordinary and Harbinger of the Doomed-Rat.
Step forward, the other one.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Black Seal.
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So it was with the Cassandra, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies;
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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And so immeasurable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it by viceroy; of destroying the Big-endian exiles, and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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