Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To practise diplomacy; use diplomatic art or skill.
- To actuate or effect by diplomacy.
- To confer a diploma upon. Thackeray. Also spelled
diplomatise .
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Examples
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THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN: Yes, but they're all unfolding at the same time -- educate, diplomatize, and prepare.
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Campbell ITY National Archives 1998
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Q On the diplomatize one, was there any discussion of the further UN Security Council resolution, which I gather is being discussed at present?
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Campbell ITY National Archives 1998
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On Iraq I would say that they agreed on the strategy that can be summed up as educate, diplomatize, and prepare.
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Campbell ITY National Archives 1998
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How fondly we recollect these solitary days of pleasure, and hope for their recurrence, and try to plan the circumstances that made them bright; and arrange, and predestinate, and diplomatize with fate for a renewal of the remembered joy.
Lady Audley's Secret 1875
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He is an emissary, we treat him with courtesy, and if he comes to diplomatize we, of course, give a patient hearing.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Presently he became aware that she was understood to be singing pointedly to him: upon which he dismissed the council of his sensations, and began to diplomatize cleverly.
Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868
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He is an emissary, we treat him with courtesy, and if he comes to diplomatize we, of course, give a patient hearing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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He is an emissary, we treat him with courtesy, and if he comes to diplomatize we, of course, give a patient hearing.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868
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And vain as Carlo was (the vanity being most intricate and subtle, like a nervous fluid), he was very open to the belief that he could diplomatize as well as fight, and lead a movement yet better than follow it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Presently he became aware that she was understood to be singing pointedly to him: upon which he dismissed the council of his sensations, and began to diplomatize cleverly.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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