diplomatic
/ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk/ adjective B2- Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries. · She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.· Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
- Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments. · Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
- Describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus.
- Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
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Lynde’s diplomatic explanation that she had made the dress because Matthew was afraid Anne would find out about it too soon if Marilla made it.
No allowance is made for accidents where diplomatic interests are at stake.
It was that of a man, from five to eight-and-thirty, in the uniform of a general officer, wearing the double epaulet of heavy bullion, that indicates superior rank, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor around his neck, which showed he was a commander, and on the right breast, the star of a grand officer of the order of the Saviour, and on the left that of the grand cross of Charles III., which proved that the person represented by the picture had served in the wars of Greece and Spain, or, what was just the same thing as regarded decorations, had fulfilled some diplomatic mission in the two countries.
Sacagawea provided an extraordinary synthesis of linguistic dexterity, geographical intuition, and diplomatic acumen that repeatedly rescued the explorers from seemingly insurmountable predicaments.
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