sendling en · NOUN
Etymology
From send + -ling.
Meanings
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One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
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.
1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153:[…] 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.
1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sendlings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |