Potentate vs Imperator - What's the difference?
potentate | imperator |
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
* 1592 , , Henry VI, Part I , act iii, scene 2
* 1900 , , "Sister Carrie"
As nouns the difference between potentate and imperator
is that potentate is a powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler while imperator is emperor.potentate
English
Noun
(en noun)- But Kings and mightie?t Potentates mu?t die,
For that's the end of humane mi?erie.
- 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.