Diplomatist
[di'plәumәtist]
Definition
(n.) A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Negotiator, diplomate.
Editor: Stephen
Examples
- We passed round the lawn to the outside of the young diplomatist's window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The ladies having withdrawn, and the two cousins being left together, Pitt, the ex-diplomatist, he came very communicative and friendly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, well; let's ask Mrs. George, said that arch-diplomatist of a Major. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You will never make a diplomatiSt I will tell Roylands here, and I am sure he will discover my reason. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Stop, my dear ladies, said Pitt, the diplomatist. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She flung Pitt a look of arch triumph, which caused that diplomatist almost to choke with envy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The cunning diplomatist smiled inwardly as he owned that he owed his fortune to it, and acknowledged that he at least ought not to cry out against it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If you are ready we will start at once for Woking, and see this diplomatist who is in such evil case, and the lady to whom he dictates his letters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She was the diplomatist of Tipton and Freshitt, and for anything to happen in spite of her was an offensive irregularity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The artful diplomatist and disciple of the Machiavellian Binkie! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a papal legate in Pekin in 1346, but he seems to have been a mere papal diplomatist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I shall be in a fever until I see you again, cried the diplomatist. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Bowls gave one abrupt guffaw, as a confidential servant of the family, but choked the rest of the volley; the diplomatist only smiled. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A diplomatist: one among the pleasure-seeking society of a gay city; a youth of promise; favourite of the Ambassador. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The second was the impossible system of boundaries drawn by the diplomatists of Vienna. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- European diplomatists found themselves with a question of quite the eighteenth-century pattern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was little goodwill among the diplomatists for republicanism, and a manifest disposition to embarrass the new government as much as possible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Congress had hardly assembled before the diplomatists set to work making secret bargains and treaties behind each other's backs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It greatly helped the diplomatists to carry on their game of Great Powers to convey politics in this form to the doubting general intelligence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All the diplomatists come to me. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And I wonder what were diplomatists made for but for that? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In 1648 the princes and diplomatists gathered amidst the havoc they had made to patch up the affairs of Central Europe at the Peace of Westphalia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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