[VICE-.] An official acting under, or in place of, a governor; a deputy-governor. Hence Vice-governorship.

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1598.  Florio, Vicegouernatore, a vicegouernour, a deputie-gouernour.

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1742.  Woodroofe in Hanway Trav. (1762), I. II. xvii. 77. The governor, vice-governor, and commander of the garrison, came on board.

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1760.  Ann. Reg., 73. He has for some time resided as vice-governor under the King of Prussia.

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1842.  J. F. Cooper, Jack o’ Lantern, I. 159. Vito Viti had long before gone up the street to see the vice-governor.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U. S., VI. 500. [Francis Bernard] thankfully accepts baronetcy and vice-governorship of Virginia.

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1897.  Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 393. Spanish possessions … under a Vice Governor to the Governor of Fernando Po. Ibid. The Vice-Governorship of Eloby.

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