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plenipotentiary

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plenipotentiary

Person accredited to a sovereign power and invested with unlimited power to negotiate a treaty or transact other diplomatic business. It is usual for the sovereign powers who are parties to a treaty to ratify the treaty, even though it is signed by a plenipotentiary.



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Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coming in with a star and garter on, as a plenipotentiary of great power direct from the Admiralty, to say that the Swabs were all to go to prison on the spot, and that he had brought the boatswain down the Union Jack, as a slight acknowledgment of his public services.
Robert Blaine-Harvey, American Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Extraordinary to England, was a man of great culture, surprising personal gifts, and with a diplomatic instinct which amounted almost to genius.
Whilst our friend George and his young wife were enjoying the first blushing days of the honeymoon at Brighton, honest William was left as George's plenipotentiary in London, to transact all the business part of the marriage.
 
 
 
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