Both Uses
potentate
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- Without taking overmuch upon myself my good word will go far towards gaining any strange gentleman a fair reception from yonder potentate you wot of.†
p. 206.8 *
- I went not into the forest to seek a potentate, neither do I, at any future time, design a visit thither, with a view to gaining the favour of such personage.†
p. 206.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(potentate) a powerful ruler -- especially one who is unconstrained by law
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)