diplomatist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French diplomatiste,[1] or from diplomat(ic) +‎ -ist.[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈploʊməˌtɪst/

Noun

diplomatist (plural diplomatists)

  1. (now uncommon) Synonym of diplomat.
    • 1827, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Prairie; a Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey […], →OCLC:
      It was not so easy to penetrate the motives of the Pawnees. Calm, dignified, and yet far from repulsive, they set an example of courtesy, blended with reserve, that many a diplomatist of the most polished court might have strove in vain to imitate.
    • 1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef‎[1], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
      She flung back the fortnight on his hands as if he had been an idler indifferent to dates, instead of an active young diplomatist who, to respond to her call, had had to hew his way through a very jungle of engagements!
    • 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams‎[2]:
      Diplomatists have no right to complain of mere lies; it is their own fault, if, educated as they are, the lies deceive them; but they complain bitterly of traps.
  2. A person trained in diplomatics.
    • 1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England‎[3], Cambridge: University Press:
      Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “diplomatist (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ “diplomatist, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. ^ “diplomatist, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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