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The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country.

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 Meanings and Examples of POTENTATE
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potentate
 n.  monarch; ruler who is unconstrained by law
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
2  Such were the wars waged by Alexander the Great, and by the Romans, and such are those which we see every day carried on by one potentate against another.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII.
3  Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  It might be the exhilaration of that potent cordial which is distilled only in the furnace-glow of earnest and long-continued thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
5  Others contended that the stigma had not been produced until a long time subsequent, when old Roger Chillingworth, being a potent necromancer, had caused it to appear, through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
6  Its spell, however, was still potent, and kept the scaffold awful where the poor minister had died, and likewise the cottage by the sea-shore where Hester Prynne had dwelt.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
7  Besides, that shrinking from having Miss Havisham and Estella discussed, which had come upon me in the beginning, grew much more potent as time went on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
8  'They are potent spirits, and will do whatever you like,' he answered, moving from the table to the fireside again.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
9  Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
10  Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
11  He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
12  Though such a potent spell seemed secretly to join the twain; openly, and to the awe-struck crew, they seemed pole-like asunder.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
13  He felt the subtle battle brotherhood more potent even than the cause for which they were fighting.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Now, to meet these difficulties and their attendant disorders, there is no more potent, effectual, wholesome, and necessary remedy than to slay the sons of Brutus.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI.
15  Moreover, the religious growth of millions of men, even though they be slaves, cannot be without potent influence upon their contemporaries.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence:
1  The potentate spent more time at Monte Carlo than he did at home on his throne.
2  Their most potent weapon was the Exocet missile.
3  A good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon for attracting staff.
4  Surprise remains the terrorists' most potent weapon.
5  Beauty is potent, but money is more potent.
6  The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.
7  Advertising is a potent force in showing smoking as a socially acceptable habit.
8  Beauty is potent; but money is omnipotent.
9  The movie is a potent brew of adventure, sex and comedy.
10  Among the potent factors in developing and enriching our patriotism is the constant singing of our national anthem.
11  They remain potent forces, as evidenced by car bombings in both countries over the past two weeks.
12  What you're seeing is a dominant defense and a balanced offense loaded with playmakers that has become potent under the junior quarterback.
13  The first wave arrived as near-destitute refugees, but over the decades the exiles have risen to become a potent force in American political life.