potentates in English

noun
1
a monarch or ruler, especially an autocratic one.
The Dutch tried to put it together and were able to keep it together through playing sultans and local princes and potentates off against one another for several centuries.
synonyms:rulermonarchsovereignkingqueenemperorempresssultanshahrajapharaoh
noun

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1. Various potentates from neighboring islands claimed the prize.

2. The Alee Shriners Potentates Ball Sporting Clays Shoot June 4, 2021

3. 30 Among high - fashion potentates, Arnault has taken an early lead on the Internet.

4. 2 days ago · “Warriors of African liberation struggles quickly turned into self-Aggrandizing potentates betraying the public trust.” Palliatives were fashioned in neocolonial metropolises in their varied forms, the British Commonwealth – headed, naturally, by the Queen of England, not by King Mswati III of Swaziland, being one of such pacifiers.

5. 11 Clothe you with the armour of God, that ye may stand against the Ambushings, [or assailings], of the devil. 12 For why striving [or battle] is not to us against flesh and blood, but against [the] princes and potentates, against governors of the world of these darknesses, against spiritual things of wickedness, in heavenly things.

6. Wherefore these words in your letter bore witness to the Bewailings of the aforesaid, and through his outspoken account that which had been passed over in silence is laid bare, namely that the Præfecture of Illyricum had been approached, and the most exalted functionary among the potentates of the world had been set in motion to expose an