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potentate

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potentate
a person who possesses great power or authority, esp a ruler or monarch


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"Ah, a good little wife, making the best of it," and the female potentate patted my hand, but continued gloomily to shake her head.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
I said that if that potentate must go over in our ship, why, I supposed he must --but that to my thinking, when the United States considered it necessary to send a dignitary of that tonnage across the ocean, it would be in better taste, and safer, to take him apart and cart him over in sections in several ships.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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