envoy

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  1. noun A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.
  2. noun A minister plenipotentiary assigned to a foreign embassy, ranking next below the ambassador.
  3. noun A messenger; an agent.
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  • “Mr. Adams, the late envoy from the American states, set off for Portsmouth on Sunday last, to embark for his return,” read a small item in the Whitehall Evening Post. —  John Adams by David McCullough
  • As the mission of the envoy was accomplished, he commenced his preparations for leaving France; but before they were completed he received fresh despatches from Marie de Medicis, in which she confirmed her former promises both to her son and his minister, in terms still more submissive than those of her previous letters, and requested a passport for Suffren, her confessor, in order that he might plead her cause. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 3
  • Chavez on Thursday said he was recalling the envoy, who could be pulled out before being formally notified that he was "persona non grata" by the —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Mr. Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave Venezuela last week - both to underscore his accusation that the envoy was aiding a purported coup plot by dissident military officers, and to show support for embattled Bolivian President Evo Morales, who expelled the U.S. envoy in that country after accusing him of egging on opposition protesters. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Only when we see the confirmation of his appointment will it be clear if he is a presidential envoy or if he is a super-envoy or a delimited envoy - in other words, whether he will stay within certain limits. —  Top Stories - Google News
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ambassador ·  embassy ·  emissary ·  commissioner ·  delegate ·  deputies ·  delegation ·  nobleman ·  adviser ·  minister ·  consul ·  statesman

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envoy:   envoys
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  1. French envoyé, messenger, from past participle of envoyer, to send, from Old French envoier, from Late Latin inviāre, to be on the way : Latin in-, in, on; see en-1 + Latin via, way; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English envoie, from Old French, a sending away, conclusion, from envoier, to send; see envoy1.

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  1. Middle English envoyen, from Old French envoyer, envoier, earlier enveier, envier, entveier, French envoyer, send, = Provencal Spanish Portuguese enviar = Italian inviare, from Latin in, in, upon (or, as to Old French ent-, from Latin inde, thence, away), + via, way (later L. viare, later Old French veier, voyer, travel): see via, voyage.
  2. from Middle English envoye, envoy, from Old French envoy, French envoi, a message, a sending, the postscript to a poem, from envoyer, send: see envoy, v. Cf. invoice.
  3. In form assimilated to envoy; from French envoyé (= Spanish Portuguese enviado = Italian inviato), a messenger, envoy, literally one sent, past participle of envoyer, send: see envoy.
 

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