diplomatn.
/ˈdɪpləʊmat/ One employed or skilled in diplomacy; a diplomatist.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > diplomat
diplomatic1791
diplomat1813
diplomatist1815
diplomatician1821
diplomatical1830
1813 R. Wilson Private Diary I. 312 The diplomates will..have to rest on their arms until the bayonets have clashed.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. i. 230 He was the special favourite of the female diplomats.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 204 A parliamentary debater and diplomat in foreign service.
1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. xiv. 239 She..had proved herself trustworthy as a secret diplomate and a political spy.
Derivatives
diˈplomatess n. a female diplomat.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > diplomat > female
diplomatess1874
1874 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1875) II. xix. 325 This clever, intriguing, agreeable diplomatess.
1890 Athenæum 1 Feb. 141/2 The Russian diplomatess of reality and the Russian diplomatess of, say, M. Sardou, have very little in common.
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