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Potentate
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- As for the queen, she is so far from being a decisive potentate that she can seem goofily out of the loop.
- In his later years, he was the potentate of a party that had long stopped believing in its own slogans.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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