potentate
a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.
Origin of potentate
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How to use potentate in a sentence
Last week, the potentate of Puzzles challenged five lucky citizens with a test.
Venezuela's oil potentate can't leave office quickly enough, but it might be a while.
He remains the unelected potentate of a draconian theocratic dictatorship.
Money became a potentate whose power is greater even than that of the president, controlling and outlasting any political fortune.
This again was used equally to denote a potentate of either sex, until at last we find the interjection dame!
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian Sharman
What can be more eloquent than his defence of Benjamin, and his appeal to what seemed to him to be an Egyptian potentate!
Beacon Lights of History, Volume II | John LordAs soon as the parties were brought in, the judicial potentate eyed them sternly for some time.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngThe American influence has been felt to such an extent that King Jazz is a universal potentate.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinThe great arch-ruler, potentate of hell, Tumbles when Bacon bids him, or his fiends Bow to the force of his pentageron.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams
British Dictionary definitions for potentate
/ (ˈpəʊtənˌteɪt) /
a person who possesses great power or authority, esp a ruler or monarch
Origin of potentate
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