Potentate
Potentate noun - One who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority.
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Pharaoh
Pharaoh noun - A person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way.
Usage example: like some pharaoh of a third-world country, more interested in building monuments to himself than in creating a future for his people
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