Emissary
['emɪs(ə)rɪ] or ['ɛmɪsɛri]
Definition
(noun.) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
Typed by Carolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
(a.) Exploring; spying.
(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Messenger, spy, scout, secret agent.
Checked by Genevieve
Examples
- I know the sort, said Mr. Hawley; some emissary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His emissary obeyed, and brought the desired intelligence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This matter, in my belief, the Steyne emissary cried, ought to be buried in the most profound oblivion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I'm extremely sorry, sir, said this emissary, that a little accident has occurred at the Miss du Lacs': a leak in the water-tank. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- If you're an emissary you're an emissary. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I had not been laid down five minutes, when another emissary arrived: Goton came, bringing me something to drink. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The emissary, Madame Olenska rejoined, still smiling, might, for all I care, have left already; but he has insisted on waiting till this evening . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was that of Eustacia's emissary. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They were strangers--emissaries from the large towns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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