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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Said Diplomatist Sumner Welles : "The Moscow Declaration should have been inseparably linked to an additional declaration setting up an agency, representative of all the United Nations."
From Time Magazine Archive
Diplomatist Moffat, plump, pleasant, pompous, is no nobody.
From Time Magazine Archive
Diplomatist; Secretary to the Board of Trade; philosopher; prose-writer.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Original Unpublished Papers illustrating his Life as an Artist and a Diplomatist.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
The announcement, made with a most perfect air of candour, interested at once the whole company, who could not subdue their murmured expressions of surprise as to the theme selected by the great Diplomatist.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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