Definition of Persona grata

1. Noun. A diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent.

Generic synonyms: Diplomat, Diplomatist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Persona Grata

persistive
persists
persnicketiness
persnickety
person
person-to-person
person-years
person agreement
person hour
person of color
person of colour
person of ordinary skill in the art
person of size
person to person epidemic
persona
persona grata (current term)
persona non grata
personability
personable
personableness
personably
personae
personae non gratae
personage
personages
personal-computer
personal-pronoun
personal appeal
personal attack

Literary usage of Persona grata

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

1. A Treatise on International Law: With an Introductory Essay on the by Roland Roberts Foulke (1920)
"... The body sending §159 Political circumstances § 160 Membership in receiving state §161 Personality of envoy, persona grata §162 Manner of reception §163 ..."

2. The Bookman (1908)
"K It is not merely Mr. Tower and Mr. Hill and the Kaiser and President Roosevelt who have suffered persona grata somewhat in the course and Persona of this ..."

3. A Versatile Professor: Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares D.D. Regius by George Cecil White (1903)
"... CHAPTER XIV A persona grata with the Marlborough family—Letters relating to the Prince of Wales's marriage to Princess Caroline THE close of the theatre ..."

4. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"persona grata (Lat., "an agreeable personage") is an expression used in diplomatic circles to indicate the standing of foreign ministers and ambassadors ..."

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