ambassage

English

Noun

ambassage (countable and uncountable, plural ambassages)

Obsolete form of embassage.; message, embassy.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
  Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,
  And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d: […]
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 26”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
  To thee I send this written ambassage,
  To witness duty, not to show my wit.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke xiv:32:
  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

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