"sendling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From send + -ling.",
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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.",
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          "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.",
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        "One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger."
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