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  • verb Present participle of protocol.

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Examples

  • To be rid of all this statecraft and protocolling, and never to issue another declaration in this world, but just to be for once a

    A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891

  • The conferences and diplomatic protocolling had resulted in nothing positive; but it is very necessary for the reader to understand the negative effects of all this dissimulation and palace-politics upon the destiny of the new commonwealth, and upon Christendom at large.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Nevertheless, both in Holland and England, there had been other work than protocolling.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1588b John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Vere and Gilpin were protocolling and marshalling accounts at the Hague, and conducting themselves with much arrogance and bitterness, while, meantime, Barneveld had hardly had time to set his foot on his native shores before he was sent back again to England at the head of another solemn legation.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1598 John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Winwood fell into a furious passion, and of course there was a violent scene, with much subsequent protesting and protocolling.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • In Germany, meanwhile, there was much protocolling, and more hard drinking, at the Diet of Ratisbon.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • At the same time, during this alternate threatening and coaxing between the French and the Spanish court, and in the midst of all the solemn and tedious protocolling of the ministry and the Dutch envoys, there was a most sincere and affectionate intercourse maintained between Henry III. and the Prince of Parma.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Protestant league, had they known that this was the meagre result of the protocolling and disputations that had been going on all the summer at

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Vere and Gilpin were protocolling and marshalling accounts at the Hague, and conducting themselves with much arrogance and bitterness, while, meantime, Barneveld had hardly had time to set his foot on his native shores before he was sent back again to England at the head of another solemn legation.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Nevertheless, both in Holland and England, there had been other work than protocolling.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

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