emissary
noun/ˈemɪsəri/
/ˈemɪseri/
(plural emissaries)
(formal)- a person who is sent to deliver an official message, especially from one country to another, or to perform a special task synonym envoy
- the King’s special emissary
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin emissarius ‘scout, spy’, from emittere ‘send out’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + mittere ‘send’.
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