potentate
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nˌteɪt noun
a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.
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| —n | |
| a person who possesses great power or authority, esp a ruler or monarch | |
| [C14: from Late Latin potentātus ruler, from Latin: rule, command, from potens powerful, from posse to be able] | |
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Word Origin & History
potentate
c.1400, from L.L. potentatus "a ruler," also "political power," from L. potentatus "power, dominion," from potentem (nom. potens) "powerful" (see potent).
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Example sentences
In his later years, he was the potentate of a party that had long stopped believing in its own slogans.
As for the queen, she is so far from being a decisive potentate that she can seem goofily out of the loop.
If luscious diversity characterizes the tropical east, then in the domain of the western potentate productivity is king.
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