"sendling" meaning in All languages combined

See sendling on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: sendlings [plural]
Etymology: From send + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|send|ling}} send + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} sendling (plural sendlings)
  1. One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger. Categories (topical): Occupations

Inflected forms

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From send + -ling.",
  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
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        },
        {
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        },
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        },
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
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            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger."
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          "emissary"
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          "messenger",
          "messenger"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "send",
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      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153:",
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        }
      ],
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        "One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger."
      ],
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        ],
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          "missionary",
          "missionary"
        ],
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          "messenger",
          "messenger"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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