Definition of Potentates

1. Noun. (plural of potentate) ¹

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Definition of Potentates

1. potentate [n] - See also: potentate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potentates

potecaries
potecary
poted
poteen
poteens
potence
potences
potencies
potency
potender
potenders
potent
potentacies
potentacy
potentate
potentates (current term)
potential
potential difference
potential divider
potential drop
potential energy
potential unit
potential vorticities
potential vorticity
potential well
potentialities
potentiality
potentialize
potentially
potentially hazardous object

Literary usage of Potentates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"IT was inevitable that secular potentates should follow the example of the ... Secular potentates, however, had not waited till the fifteenth century to ..."

2. The Historical Register: Containing an Impartial Relation of All by C. H. Green (1719)
"A Confidence between the two potentates was by his Cafe ... with' fome potentates,- un- drr Pretence of an approaching ..."

3. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"... from Victor Hugo to Lamennais, are at war with the potentates whose cause they began by championing with such ardour, and at war with that principle of ..."

4. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"potentates, Friends and Allies of this State, or Neutrals, to allow the aforesaid West India Company to enjoy and possess the aforesaid limits in peace and ..."

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