All 5 Uses of
emissary
in
The Magic Mountain
- It retains traces of its fecund secret; nor can there be any doubt that Freemasonry has its hand in world politics, just as there is more to our charming Herr Settembrini than the man himself— standing behind him are powers, whose kin and emissary he is.†
Chpt 6.8
- Emissary?†
Chpt 6.8
- And what sort of emissary are you?†
Chpt 6.8
- Caution is definitely required when one is dealing with emissaries.†
Chpt 6.8 *emissaries = people sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- Over the centuries, the Church's love of innovation had consisted of Inquisitions, whose task was to throttle all life-affirming ideas, to suffocate them in the smoke of the stake: but nowadays she was sending out her emissaries to announce that she was all (or upending things, that her goal was to replace freedom, education, and democracy with dictatorship of the mob and barbarism.†
Chpt 7.4
Definition:
someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else