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sendling

sendling noun: one who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.

Noun

sendling (plural sendlings)

  1. One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
    • […] when the hour fixed for his liberation struck, he was conducted from the prison-house like a conqueror in triumph and the proudest nations of the earth rivalled each other in receiving the pennyless fugitive gloriously, like a sendling of God.1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum
    • Such a man is a Predicant, or minister; but a man of inferior fitness aud qualities is allowed to preach to blacks or low whites, and he is called a "sendling," or missionary.1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153

Forms of sendling

pluralsendlings

Origin of sendling

From send + -ling.

Questions about sendling

What does sendling mean?
Sendling means one who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
What part of speech is sendling?
Sendling is a noun.
What is the plural of sendling?
The plural of sendling is sendlings.

Words near sendling in the dictionary

  1. sending-off
  2. sending-offs
  3. sendings
  4. sendings off
  5. sendings-off
  6. sendling
  7. sendlings
  8. sendoff
  9. sendoffs
  10. Sendov's conjecture
  11. Sendra

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