Sendling
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"[…] 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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