Sendling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.

    "[…] when the hour fixed for his liberation struck, he was conducted from the prison-house like a conqueror in triumph and the proudest nations of the earth rivalled each other in receiving the pennyless fugitive gloriously, like a sendling of God."

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"[…] when the hour fixed for his liberation struck, he was conducted from the prison-house like a conqueror in triumph and the proudest nations of the earth rivalled each other in receiving the pennyless fugitive gloriously, like a sendling of God."

Etymology

From send + -ling.

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