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A diplomat: a person whose job is to speak for their country to another country, usually with careful manners and careful words. The work is the same as diplomat. This -ist form is old-fashioned now, and you will mostly meet it in older British books and newspapers. Almost everyone today says diplomat. Using diplomatist does not make you sound more expert; it makes you sound as if you copied a nineteenth-century page — which is often exactly where the word is sitting.
外交官（英語舊稱；現在一般都說 diplomat）
組成Borrowed from French diplomatiste, or built in English from diplomat / diplomatic + the person-suffix -ist.
同家族的字
- diplomatthe ordinary modern word for the same job
- diplomaticthe adjective for that work, and for talking in a careful, not-blunt way
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
diplomatistnoun/dɪˈploʊməˌtɪst/
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Synonym of diplomat.
- It was not so easy to penetrate the motives of the Pawnees. Calm, dignified, and yet far from repulsive, they set an example of courtesy, blended with reserve, that many a diplomatist of the most polished court might have strove in vain to imitate.
- She flung back the fortnight on his hands as if he had been an idler indifferent to dates, instead of an active young diplomatist who, to respond to her call, had had to hew his way through a very jungle of engagements!
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A person trained in diplomatics.
- Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。