Sendling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sendling is a noun meaning One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
Meaning
One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
Example Sentences
Such a man is a Predicant, or minister; but a man of inferior fitness aud qualities is allowed to preach to blacks or low whites, and he is called a "sendling," or missionary.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- sendlings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include missive, missionary, messager, emissary, sendee, sender.
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