dynast
Noun
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A ruler; a governor; a prince.
A dynasty; a government.
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He published Poems of the Past and Present in 1901, and from 1903 to 1908, The Dynast, a huge drama in which Hardy’s conception of the Immanent Will, implicit in the tragic novels, is most clearly stated.
The dynast (head of the Spanish Habsburgs, i.e. the King, showed this wide range of claims in his arms.
The term " dynast " has come into use among English-speaking scholars, but that is not a native term. The Lycian inscriptions indicate the monarch was titled xñtawati, more phonetically khñtawati.