Potentate
['pəʊt(ə)nteɪt]
Definition
(a.) One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Monarch, sovereign, king, emperor, prince.
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Examples
- Mr Wegg, she is worthy of being loved by a Potentate! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I say 'Mighty potentate, here IS my homage! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The letter--for it was a letter from a foreign potentate--was received six days ago. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Legree, like some potentates we read of in history, governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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