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Definition of Potentates
1. potentate [n] - See also: potentate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potentates
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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