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Definition of Ambassadors

1. ambassador [n] - See also: ambassador

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambassadors

Literary usage of Ambassadors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(1) Ambassadors.—The king, therefore, considered as the representative of his people, has the sole power of sending ambassadors to foreign states, ..."

2. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Some of their number, who knew better what [ 403 their ambassadors cannot be ... The king of France admits no ambassadors from the princes of Germany, ..."

3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"Ambassadors form the first class. Only States enjoying royal honours 1 are entitled to send and to receive Ambassadors, as also is the Holy See, ..."

4. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1859)
"THE RETURN OF THE Ambassadors. Now that I have related the transactions which you have heard, I will write an account of the return of the ambassadors, ..."

5. Introduction to the Study of International Law: Designed as an Aid in by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"But although the sending of ambassadors and even of resident ambassadors seems almost essential to a participation in the international law of Christendom, ..."

6. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"The English ambassadors endeavoured to soften the fault, but could not deny the words. In addition to this general Letter of the Ambassadors, ..."

7. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"The three Ambassadors, Cats, Schaef, and Van de Perre, landed at Gravesend on December 15. At their first audience they were informed ..."

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