diplomatist

Noun

diplomatist (plural diplomatists)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of diplomat.
   • It was not so easy to penetrate the motives of the Pawnees. Calm, dignified, and yet far from repulsive, they set an example of courtesy, blended with reserve, that many a diplomatist of the most polished court might have strove in vain to imitate.1827, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Prairie; a Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey […], →OCLC
   • She flung back the fortnight on his hands as if he had been an idler indifferent to dates, instead of an active young diplomatist who, to respond to her call, had had to hew his way through a very jungle of engagements!1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company

   Synonyms:

   diplomat

2. A person trained in diplomatics.
   • Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality...1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press