What's the difference between dynast and dynastic?

Dynast


Definition:

  • (n.) A ruler; a governor; a prince.
  • (n.) A dynasty; a government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speculation about a shift in power at the top focuses on Kim's sons – and on his apparent wish to secure a third-generation dynastic succession.
  • (2) Wolff suggested the world was witnessing the end of the Murdochs' dynastic ambitions.
  • (3) Bush immediately distanced himself from his father and brother’s time in the White House, seeking to counter criticism that his return would symbolise Washington’s dynastic capture.
  • (4) They chose a change from the dynastic regime that has ruled our country since 1967,” Ping wrote.
  • (5) Indeed, in the modern context, it is not hard to see how a crashed financial market might be viewed as a powerful suggestion that party leaders are losing heaven’s favour and their own legitimacy, and, worse, that a new dynastic cycle may be in the offing.
  • (6) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
  • (7) As Greece descended into economic crisis, there were almost no signs that the young ideologue, an ardent admirer of Ernesto “Che” Guevara – he named the youngest of his two sons after the Argentinian Marxist revolutionary – would emerge as the wild card to challenge Europe or Athens’ own dynastic politics and vested interests.
  • (8) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I’m putting the Beltway on notice.
  • (9) A dynastic battle for the White House has never seemed less likely.
  • (10) It is written by Bruce Wagner (author of the excoriating I'm Losing You) and all about a dynastic Hollywood family, deeply embedded and dysfunctionally addicted to the culture of celebrity in Los Angeles.
  • (11) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
  • (12) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
  • (13) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I don’t think he has the infrastructure,” McLinden said of Rubio, though he did note that the Florida senator “gives a great speech.” After Rubio’s speech at the fairgrounds on Saturday, he was received like a rock star … or at the very least like Donald Trump, surrounded by reporters, fans and even professional autograph seekers, sensing a good investment.
  • (14) The Maldives has all sorts of political woes but dynastic rule is not one of them.
  • (15) But constraints from Brussels and "expert" ideological agreement mean that, despite rhetorical hyperbole, the two dynastic heirs will deliver fiscal tightening or monetary liquidity in exactly the same way.
  • (16) In Greece, the absence of ideological differences means that dynastic provenance, the latest corruption scandal or the prospect of getting a job for the unemployed son or daughter decides elections.
  • (17) Why are dynastic politics so tenacious on the subcontinent?
  • (18) Kim, who had been living in exile with his family in Macau under Chinese protection, had spoken publicly in the past against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
  • (19) And yet some people find North Korea and its dynastic trio of Kims, well, funny.
  • (20) But Paul, the son of libertarian candidate Ron Paul, is hardly without dynastic pretensions of his own.

Dynastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speculation about a shift in power at the top focuses on Kim's sons – and on his apparent wish to secure a third-generation dynastic succession.
  • (2) Wolff suggested the world was witnessing the end of the Murdochs' dynastic ambitions.
  • (3) Bush immediately distanced himself from his father and brother’s time in the White House, seeking to counter criticism that his return would symbolise Washington’s dynastic capture.
  • (4) They chose a change from the dynastic regime that has ruled our country since 1967,” Ping wrote.
  • (5) Indeed, in the modern context, it is not hard to see how a crashed financial market might be viewed as a powerful suggestion that party leaders are losing heaven’s favour and their own legitimacy, and, worse, that a new dynastic cycle may be in the offing.
  • (6) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
  • (7) As Greece descended into economic crisis, there were almost no signs that the young ideologue, an ardent admirer of Ernesto “Che” Guevara – he named the youngest of his two sons after the Argentinian Marxist revolutionary – would emerge as the wild card to challenge Europe or Athens’ own dynastic politics and vested interests.
  • (8) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I’m putting the Beltway on notice.
  • (9) A dynastic battle for the White House has never seemed less likely.
  • (10) It is written by Bruce Wagner (author of the excoriating I'm Losing You) and all about a dynastic Hollywood family, deeply embedded and dysfunctionally addicted to the culture of celebrity in Los Angeles.
  • (11) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
  • (12) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
  • (13) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I don’t think he has the infrastructure,” McLinden said of Rubio, though he did note that the Florida senator “gives a great speech.” After Rubio’s speech at the fairgrounds on Saturday, he was received like a rock star … or at the very least like Donald Trump, surrounded by reporters, fans and even professional autograph seekers, sensing a good investment.
  • (14) The Maldives has all sorts of political woes but dynastic rule is not one of them.
  • (15) But constraints from Brussels and "expert" ideological agreement mean that, despite rhetorical hyperbole, the two dynastic heirs will deliver fiscal tightening or monetary liquidity in exactly the same way.
  • (16) In Greece, the absence of ideological differences means that dynastic provenance, the latest corruption scandal or the prospect of getting a job for the unemployed son or daughter decides elections.
  • (17) Why are dynastic politics so tenacious on the subcontinent?
  • (18) Kim, who had been living in exile with his family in Macau under Chinese protection, had spoken publicly in the past against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
  • (19) And yet some people find North Korea and its dynastic trio of Kims, well, funny.
  • (20) But Paul, the son of libertarian candidate Ron Paul, is hardly without dynastic pretensions of his own.

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