Potentate

/pˈə‍ʊtəntˌe‍ɪt/

/ˈpoʊtənˌteɪt/

[noun]

Potentate

[NOUN]

someone who rules over people and possesses absolute control and power

synonyms : dictator

Examples

1. Today, the Jewish people face another attempt by yet another Persian potentate to destroy us.

2. Today the Jewish people face another attempt by yet another Persian potentate to destroy us.

3. Therefore the nobility, as such as it was, was not a group of local potentates, as they had been under the late Roman Empire, great landowners for example.

4. So after centuries of crusades, with the spectacular growth of the Ottoman and Mamluk Empires increasingly blocking access to trade with the East, Europe looked with anticipation to a potentate, thousands of miles away.