Envoy
['envɒɪ] or ['ɛnvɔɪ]
Definition
(noun.) a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
(noun.) a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador.
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Definition
(n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
(n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Minister, ambassador, plenipotentiary.
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Definition
n. a messenger esp. one sent to transact business with a foreign government: a diplomatic minister of the second order.—n. En′voyship.
n. the concluding part of a poem or a book: the author's final words esp. now the short stanza concluding a poem written in certain archaic metrical forms.
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Examples
- The French envoy got both. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The envoy had indeed good reason to hang his head. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He tore up the letter, flung the fragments at the envoy, and bade him begone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The carpenter-envoy had not been idle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He went to a ball at the hotel of the Bavarian envoy, the Count de Springbock-Hohenlaufen, with his head shaved and dressed as a Capuchin friar. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Countess herself actually came to wait upon Mrs. Crawley on the failure of her second envoy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And he delivered this statement with as much careful precision as if he had been a diplomatic envoy whose words would be attended with results. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The morning after, he followed Mr. Yorke to his counting-house, and requested an envoy to fetch a chaise from the Red House Inn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Tsar of Russia chased the English envoy from his court. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After a short interval envoys from China and Kao-chang were admitted and presented their despatches and credentials, which the Khan perused. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These envoys pressed them to come on to the Great Khan, who at that time had never seen men of the Latin peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Differences in dietary soon attracted the attention of the envoys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But so did the Moslem historians, because of that mosque at Canton, and so did the Christian writers, because of the Nestorian envoys (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Jengis Khan, while still engaged in this war with the Kin empire, sent envoys to Kharismia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was much elated, and caused the envoys to be seated; then he ordered wine and music for himself and them and grape-syrup for the pilgrim. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the Chinese monarch neither neglected the message as Heraclius did, nor insulted the envoys after the fashion of the parricide Kavadh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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