ambassadorshipn.
/amˈbasədəʃɪp/, U.S. /æmˈbæsədərˌʃɪp/, /əmˈbæsədərˌʃɪp/ 1. The office, position, or function of an ambassador (in various senses).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > position of
ambassage1548
ambassadorship1552
emissaryship1631
envoyship1736
1552 R. Morison Let. 7 Oct. in Hardwicke's Misc. State Papers (1778) I. 59 If he would give me leave to lay aside mine office, mine Ambassadorship, and privately to talk with him,..I would tell him what I thought.
1646 Let. in P. Rycault Hist. Turkish Empire (1687) 68/2 The loss he should sustain by being put out of the Ambassadorship, which he saith his Majesty hath granted him for his Life.
1787 Worcester Mag. 3 113/1 Mr. King..is in the nomination for the Ambassadorship to the Court of London.
1845 A. Scott Common Sense iii. 30 A clergyman who is drunk on Saturday, will but with an ill grace talk of his dignity and ambassadorship on Sunday.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 1 Ten years of successful ambassadorship.
1959 M. Barth Broken Wall iv. ii. 180 Paul probably had special reasons to build everything on the preaching of love and the ambassadorship for love.
1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xlvi. 748 Please, not an ambassadorship, he thought, the usual kiss-off for a senior official.
2. The term of office of an ambassador.
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1876 R. O. Masson Three Cent. Eng. Poetry 180 He..was committed, upon his return.., to the Tower for offences alleged to have been committed by him during his ambassadorship.
2017 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 23 Dec. a1 Though she never again held public office, Eu could not keep away from politics after her ambassadorship.
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ambassadorship extraordinary n. (also extraordinary ambassadorship) the position or office of ambassador extraordinary (ambassador extraordinary n. at ambassador n. Compounds).
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1660 G. Bridges tr. Duc de Rohan Memoires i. 17 The Marshall Bouillon..having obtain'd the Ambassadorship extraordinary for England.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 157/1 Chamberlainships, Councillorships, and Extraordinary Ambassadorships.
2000 A. Belton tr. A. Contini in tr. D. Frigo Politics Diplomacy Early Mod. Italy 77 This mission was the first in an uninterrupted sequence of ambassadorships extraordinary which Cosimo assigned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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