单词 | ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary |
释义 | > as lemmasambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary 2. A diplomat of the highest rank appointed and accredited as the resident representative of a monarch or state in a foreign court or state. In later use also more fully ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary.Also called ordinary ambassador, resident ambassador, ledger ambassador (see the first elements); ambassador in ordinary (cf. ordinary n. Phrases 2).Recorded earliest in ordinary ambassador.The rank of ‘ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary’ was formally created as the highest diplomatic rank by the Congress of Vienna of 1815, and was originally restricted to diplomats of the ‘Great Powers’ (the United Kingdom, the Austrian Empire, Prussia, France, and Russia). The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) simplified the ranks and protocols codified in 1815, designating the equivalent rank simply as ‘ambassador’; however, the full title is still used in some (typically formal) contexts. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador ambassador1524 ledger1548 ledger-ambassador (also ambassador ledger)1550 resident ambassador?1551 ambassador extraordinary1603 embassador1603 1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. E.11 Two ordynary ambassadours were chosen for them, one Nycholas Uergoty, and the other Piero of saynt Cretyce. 1655 Publick Intelligencer 17 Mar. 429 The Sieur de Lyonne, who hath been Ambassador for France in the Court of Rome. 1798 T. Grenville Let. 19 Nov. in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) II. 417 This last high honour will facilitate the means of increasing the establishment of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to that of Ambassador in Ordinary. 1880 W. Cory Guide Mod. Eng. Hist. I. 158 An Ambassador, unlike other ministers, has a right to a personal interview with the Sovereign of the country in which he resides. 1952 Americas 9 171 The discourse which His Holiness Pius XII, on March 12, 1952, delivered in the presence of the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Paraguay, Doctor Don Emilio O'Leary. 2009 D. Blinken in V. Blinken & D. Blinken Vera & Ambassador 71 The first thing I discovered on my first day as the fully credentialed U.S. ambassador to Hungary was a long line of Hungarians snaking around the outside of our embassy building. < as lemmas |
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