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Definition of Envoy

1. Noun. A diplomat having less authority than an ambassador.

2. Noun. Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.

3. Noun. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.

Definition of Envoy

1. n. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

Definition of Envoy

1. Noun. representative ¹

2. Noun. diplomat ¹

3. Noun. messenger ¹

4. Noun. a short stanza at the end of a poem ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Envoy

1. a representative [n -VOYS] - See also: representative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Envoy

envois envoke envokes envolume envolumed envolumes envoluming envolve envolved envolvement

envolvements envolver envolvers envolves envolving envoy (current term) envoy extraordinary envoys envoyship envoyships

envy envyed envying envyingly envyings envyned envyous enwall enwalled enwalling

Literary usage of Envoy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"envoy § 398. If an envoy travels through the territory of ... But matters are different when an envoy, on his way from his own State to the State of his ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"In view of the fact that the office of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey never had existed and never had been filled by any person ..."

3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"The envoy of Ruffia, having happily executed the laft part of his ... and envoy extraordinary, to renew the treaties between ..."

4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"The envoy But who was the envoy thus trusted for a work Lord JLg- truly vital—the envoy thus happily able to return French from his mission with tidings of ..."

5. The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907: Accompanied by by James Brown Scott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law (1915)
"France: His Excellency Marcellin Pellet, envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague. Great Britain: His Excellency Sir George William ..."

6. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"... both Demosthenes is described as one of the presiding magistrates of the public assembly, and as having done all that he could to prevent the envoy of ..."

7. Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck (1898)
"On my replying to a sudden question from the minister Manteuffel as to whether I would take the post of envoy to the Bund with a simple ' Yes,' the King ..."

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