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Potentate vs Authorities - What's the difference?

potentate | authorities |

As nouns the difference between potentate and authorities

is that potentate is a powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler while authorities is .

potentate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
  • * 1592 , , Henry VI, Part I , act iii, scene 2
    • But Kings and mightie?t Potentates mu?t die,
    For that's the end of humane mi?erie.
  • * 1900 , , "Sister Carrie"
    • She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.

    Related terms

    * potence * potency * potent * potential * potentiality

    authorities

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • The bodies that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere
  • The bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service