diplomatist

[ dih-ploh-muh-tist ]

noun

1. British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
2. a person who is astute and tactful in any negotiation or relationship.

diplomatist

/ dɪˈpləʊmətɪst /

noun

1. a less common word for diplomat

Word History and Origins

Origin of diplomatist¹

First recorded in 1805–15; diplomat(ic) + -ist

Example Sentences

Even wise, cool heads, such as the French diplomatist Jean-Marie Guéhenno, are seriously countenancing the idea that a no-deal Brexit may be better than prolonging the agony.

From The Guardian

Soon after this Prince Metternich proved himself to be as perfect a gentleman as he was a diplomatist.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a self-made man, gaining distinction as a printer, journalist, author, electrician, natural philosopher, statesman, and diplomatist.

From Project Gutenberg

The hour of the day was somewhat late for Richard of Woodville to present himself before the Count de Charolois, and he also judged that it might be more prudent to visit in the first place the agent of the King of England--the well-known diplomatist of that day, Sir Philip Morgan, or de Morgan--if it should chance that he had accompanied the Count to Ghent.

From Project Gutenberg

He was not sent thither to babble of the King's affairs; and though he truly represented his Sovereign as highly popular with all classes, and deservedly so, Sir Philip de Morgan gained little farther information from him on any of the many points, in regard to which the diplomatist would fain have penetrated the monarch's designs before he thought fit to communicate them.

From Project Gutenberg