Potentates
[pəʊtn,teɪts]
Examples
- An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Legree, like some potentates we read of in history, governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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