envoy

IPA: ˈɛnvɔɪ

(law) A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
A representative.
A diplomat.
A messenger.
(poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”) [(poetry) A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.]

Examples of "envoy" in Sentences

The envoy is in civil dress, and leans upon his staff of command.
Meanwhile, up came an envoy from the approaching host, making for the city.
Incidentally, the U.N. envoy is Thai university professor Vitit Muntarbhorn.
He replied, “I am a messenger and an envoy from the lord of the city to your chief.”
Anson Burlingame, who had been an envoy from the Chinese Emperor; Sir Samuel Baker, of London;
When the guards saw him, they knew him for an envoy from the King of the city; so they took him and brought him before their Sultan.
But within a few days there came an envoy from the King of the Franks, to seek the captives and the prisoners, according to the treaty between the Kings.
He was missing for 6 years when HM Stanley, an envoy from the New York Herald newspaper found him on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and uttered his famous greeting.
The incident of sending a present of clothing is curiously like the tale about a certain English envoy, whose proprieties were sadly ruffled in the Nair country, when a lady sent him a grand shawl with an intimation of her choice.
As rebels challenging pro-Qaddafi forces struggled to regroup around the oil port of Brega, and the roar of allied warplanes was heard again over the capital, residents reacted in shock at the defection of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, a close ally of Colonel Qaddafi's since the early days of the revolution, who once earned the nickname "envoy of death" for his role in the assassinations of earlier Libyan defectors.