sendling

See also: Sendling

English

Etymology

From send +‎ -ling.

Noun

sendling (plural sendlings)

1. One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
   • 1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum:

     […] when the hour fixed for his liberation struck, he was conducted from the prison-house like a conqueror in triumph and the proudest nations of the earth rivalled each other in receiving the pennyless fugitive gloriously, like a sendling of God.

   • 1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153:

     Such a man is a Predicant, or minister; but a man of inferior fitness aud qualities is allowed to preach to blacks or low whites, and he is called a "sendling," or missionary.

Anagrams

• endlings, lendings