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Another word for dignitary

noun

An important, influential person:

character, eminence, leader, lion, nabob, notability, notable, personage. (Informal) big-timer, heavyweight, somebody, someone, VIP. (Slang) big shot, big wheel, bigwig, muckamuck. See important

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The highest county dignitary is the lord-lieutenant, the office dating from 1782.
The lord chief justice is, next to the lord chancellor, the highest judicial dignitary in the kingdom.
A dignitary in 1 This is the view of Dr Adrian Fortescue (The Orthodox Eastern Church, p. 406); according to Braun (Lit.
The master of the horse is the third dignitary of the court, and is always a member of the ministry (before 1782 the office was of cabinet rank), a peer and a privy councillor.
On returning from Tilsit to Paris he relieved Talleyrand of the ministry of foreign affairs, softening the fall by creating him a grand dignitary of the empire.

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