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diplomacy|dɪˈpləʊməsɪ|
[a. F. diplomatie (pronounced -cie), f. diplomate, diplomatique, after aristocrate, aristocratique, aristocratie: see diplomatic and -acy. So It. diplomazia, Sp. diplomacia, Ger. and Du. diplomatie, all from Fr.]
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1. The management of international relations by negotiation; the method by which these relations are adjusted and managed by ambassadors and envoys; the business or art of the diplomatist; skill or address in the conduct of international intercourse and negotiations.
1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 243 note, He did what he could to destroy the double diplomacy of France. He had all the secret correspondence burnt. 1797Ibid. iii. 348 The only excuse for all our mendicant diplomacy is..that it has been founded on absolute necessity. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. iv. xi. (1849) 246 His first thoughts were all for war, his sober second thoughts for diplomacy. 1828Webster, Diplomacy.. the customs, rules and privileges of embassadors, envoys and other representatives of princes and states at foreign courts; forms of negotiation. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 257 The business for which he was preeminently fitted was diplomacy. 1862T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths II. 223 Cardinal Richelieu seems to be..considered the founder of the present system of diplomacy properly so called..I can find no better signification for the word which typifies the pursuit..than double-dealing..it is expressive of concealment, if not of duplicity. 1865Lecky Ration. (1878) II. 271 The appointment of consuls in the Syrian towns..gave the first great impulse to international diplomacy. 1877Encycl. Brit. VII. 251/1 Diplomacy is the art of conducting the intercourse of nations with each other..It is singular that a term of so much practical importance in politics and history should be so recent in its adoption that it is not to be found in Johnson's dictionary. 1880Stubbs Med. & Mod. Hist. x. (1886) 235 As diplomacy was in its beginnings, so it lasted for a long time; the ambassador was the man who was sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
†2. The diplomatic body. [= F. diplomatie, ‘le personnel des ambassades’ (Littré).] Obs.
1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 48 The diplomacy..were quite awestruck with ‘the pomp, pride and circumstance’ of this majestick Senate. 1806Southey Lett. (1856) I. 387 If there be no English diplomacy at Lisbon..away go my hopes in that quarter.
3. Skill or address in the management of relations of any kind; artful management in dealing with others.
1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 339 The aristocracy were already..acquiring control over public affairs by the crafts of diplomacy. 1865Livingstone Zambesi vi. 147 Masakasa felt confident that he could get it out of these hunters by his diplomacy. Mod. The lady thought it better to attain her ends by diplomacy.
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4. = diplomatic n. 3. rare.
1870J. Hadley Ess. vii. (1873) 130 These [forms of letters] would probably give ground for a near guess to one expert in Anglo-Saxon diplomacy. |