Saturday, 31 August 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Potentate

po-ten-tate



noun :: One who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.



"I said that if that potentate must go over in our ship, why, I supposed he must --but that to my thinking, when the United States considered it necessary to send a dignitary of that tonnage across the ocean, it would be in better taste, and safer, to take him apart and cart him over in sections in several ships." --Twain, Mark

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