sendling

English

Etymology

From send +‎ -ling.

Noun

sendling (plural sendlings)

  1. One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
    • 1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum:
      […] 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.
    • 1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM - Page 153:
      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.

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