emissary

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Cisneros, being governor of the kingdom, placed guards at all the ports, and the emissary was arrested as he was going to embark at Valencia.

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  1. noun An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another.

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  • It would be an unpleasant thing for me to have one of my guests seized as a British emissary, and made to undergo the scrutiny and perhaps insults of a party of volunteer police. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • W.T. took his hat off and bowed to her with as much ceremony as if she had been an old-time marquise and he an emissary from the English Court. —  The White Cottage Mystery - Margery Allingham - 1928
  • Washington decided to receive the young emissary, and in a manner which, if not cold, was strictly formal. —  John Adams by David McCullough
  • When that emissary, therefore, approached the encampment of the rebels, he was opposed in a narrow pass by a body of archers, with their cross-bows levelled. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • He sent his daughter to Massachusetts as his emissary, much as Kent Powers had sent his son in his place. —  EQMM,December2006
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  1. Latin ēmissārius, from ēmissus, past participle of ēmittere, to send out; see emit.

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  1. = French émissaire = Spanish emisario = Portuguese Italian emissario, n., from Latin emissarius, sent out (as adjective, first in Late Latin), as a noun, a scout, spy, emissary, in Late Latin also an attendant, from Latin emittere, past participle emissus, send out: see emit.
 

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