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potentate
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Definition:a powerful monarch
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“There is much in what you say,” replied Prince Florizel, “and I am not altogether pleased with my own determination. Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? I never felt my weakness more acutely than now, Geraldine, but it is stronger than I.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Suicide Club
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From the aproned pot-scrubber to the flanneled potentate, everybody liked me
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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to tender to His Majesty the heartfelt thanks of British traders for the facilities afforded them in his dominions. The delegation partook of luncheon at the conclusion of which the dusky potentate, in the course of a happy speech, freely translated by the British chaplain, the reverend Ananias Praisegod Barebones,
James Joyce. Ulysses
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