potentate

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I hope a lot of potentates will lose their jobs and influence when the situation is rectified.

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a ruler who is unconstrained by law

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noun

a ruler who is unconstrained by law

Definitions

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noun

a ruler who is unconstrained by law

Example sentences

I hope a lot of potentates will lose their jobs and influence when the situation is rectified.

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Modern Americans live better than any king or potentate did in medieval times.

Everyone observes the thing sitting on the kitchen counter like a little potentate, waiting for it to ripen.

Not a private company with a megalomaniac potentate heading it up.

The US oath of allegiance requires you to "renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty".

Namely: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; ..." It doesn't have anything to do with which country you are from.

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen"