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Potentate meaning
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler. | A powerful polity or institution. | A self-important person.
Example sentences (8)
The just concluded World Cup tournament diverted attention from the brutalising, neo-liberal economic policies of many governments, and the heavy malice of many a potentate, across the world.
In each context he offered his services to the potentate.
Donald Trump has slavishly rewarded the North Korean regime, providing praise and prestige to its totalitarian potentate even as it continues to develop nuclear fuel and weapons.
And unlike those cartel companies run by flunkies of the local potentate, the U.S. oil industry couldn’t run to the government for sovereign wealth fund investment or some other bailout.
Apparently you have to swear an oath of allegeance not to American's laws or Constitution nor even a flag, but to the Person of the Potentate in His August Presence.
Fleming was the first Potentate.
Reportedly, he even received a letter from the ambassador of the Persian potentate Shah Ismael, inviting Afonso to become a leading lord in Persia.
The Mandgelis Document refers to a Khazar potentate in the Taman Peninsula around 985, long after Sviatoslav's death.