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Envoy vs Plenipotentiary - What's the difference?

envoy | plenipotentiary |

As nouns the difference between envoy and plenipotentiary

is that envoy is (senseid)representative while plenipotentiary is a person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.

As an adjective plenipotentiary is

invested with full power.

envoy

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)representative
  • diplomat
  • messenger
  • a short stanza at the end of a poem

    • plenipotentiary

    English

    (wikipedia plenipotentiary)

    Noun

    (plenipotentiaries)
  • A person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
    • 1985': Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah '''plenipotentiary . — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked

    Derived terms

    * (ambassador and) minister plenipotentiary

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "plenipotentiary")

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Invested with full power.
  • Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent

    • Synonyms

    * plenipotent

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "plenipotentiary")