Associations to the word «Potentate»

Wiktionary

POTENTATE, noun. A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
POTENTATE, noun. A powerful polity or institution.
POTENTATE, adjective. (obsolete) Regnant, powerful, dominant.

Dictionary definition

POTENTATE, noun. A ruler who is unconstrained by law.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca