diplomatist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French diplomatiste.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
diplomatist (plural diplomatists)
- (now uncommon) Synonym of diplomat
- 1827, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Prairie; a Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey […], →OCLC:
- It was not so easy to penetrate the motives of the Pawnees. Calm, dignified, and yet far from repulsive, they set an example of courtesy, blended with reserve, that many a diplomatist of the most polished court might have strove in vain to imitate.
- 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams[1]:
- Diplomatists have no right to complain of mere lies; it is their own fault, if, educated as they are, the lies deceive them; but they complain bitterly of traps.
Translations[edit]
diplomat — see diplomat