diplomatist
Americannoun
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British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
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a person who is astute and tactful in any negotiation or relationship.
noun
Etymology
Origin of diplomatist
First recorded in 1805–15; diplomat(ic) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Even wise, cool heads, such as the French diplomatist Jean-Marie Guéhenno, are seriously countenancing the idea that a no-deal Brexit may be better than prolonging the agony.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2019
Both Kennedy and Johnson highly valued O'Brien's skills as a political diplomatist and used him as their liaison officer with the often fractious Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death in 1937.
From Time Magazine Archive
Couve, a brilliant, civilized, highly trained diplomatist, who among his colleagues would usually be seeking any new avenue of compromise, was now plainly little more than a messenger boy for le grand Charles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under those apparently bewildering circumstances, he was enabled by his sagacity and penetration to win his spurs as a diplomatist.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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