Does the Word Potentate Mean?

a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.

What does the word potentate mean in the Bible?

: ruler, sovereign broadly : one who wields great power or sway.

How do you use potentate in a sentence?

Potentate sentence example
  1. Valdemar was now, after the king of England, the most powerful potentate in the north of Europe. ...
  2. The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.
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