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WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador

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  • “Pinckney's dispositions, so well known to have been just towards them; & I sincerely hope, not only that he may be employed as envoy extraordinary to them, but that their minds will be better prepared to receive him. candidly acknolege, however, that I do not think the speech & addresses of Congress as conciliatory as the preceding irritations on both sides would have rendered wise.”

    Letters

  • “F.W. A. Bruce was at 46 a diplomat of considerable experience, having served in South A.erica, Egypt, Hong Kong (as colonial secretary), Newfoundland (as governor), and in China, first as secretary to his brother, and from 1858 as superintendent of trade and envoy extraordinary to the Chinese Empire.”

    Flashman and the Dragon

  • “The day of his departure the Emperor gave an audience, after his toilet, to Baron Vincent, envoy extraordinary of Austria, and sent by him a letter to his sovereign.”

    Recollections of the private life of Napoleon

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