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- One laughed; another told extravagant long-bow stories to the envoy; a third held a sulky silence; a fourth damned the polite spy and bade him hold his jaw—and that was all they got out of us.'†
envoy = representative sent on a mission
- So the next morning, the morning of the third day of the strike, when the members of the Committee of Public Safety appeared again before the magistrate, they found themselves treated with the greatest possible courtesy—in fact, rather as envoys and ambassadors than prisoners.†
envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- They sent a duly accredited envoy to treat with these men, who somehow had obtained dominion over people's minds, while the formal rulers had no hold except over their bodies.†
*envoy = representative sent on a mission
Definitions:
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(1)
(envoy) a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, envoy can reference a specific level of minister in the UK or a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.