Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A papal ambassador or representative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A messenger; one who brings intelligence.
- noun Specifically A papal messenger; a permanent diplomatic agent of the first rank, representing the Pope at the capital of a country entitled to that distinction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A messenger.
- noun The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a
legate a latere , whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ecclesiastic title of a permanentdiplomatic representative of theRoman Catholic Church to asovereign state or international organisation, accorded rank equivalent to an accreditedambassador , and may also be given additional privileges including recognition asDean in a country's diplomatic corps.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Due to tensions between the two, in April 2004, Ranjith — who was not a Vatican diplomat — was named the nuncio in Indonesia and East Timor.
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Scicluna stressed that ordinary faithful have not only the right but the duty to inform the Vatican, via the papal nuncio or ambassador in each country, when a situation of abuse is affecting the life of the diocese.
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The nuncio will force the being to the next evolutionary step, but Richard also knows if Jaffe were to use it, it would focus on his urges of murder and revenge, making him into a serial killer.
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The nuncio will force the being to the next evolutionary step, but Richard also knows if Jaffe were to use it, it would focus on his urges of murder and revenge, making him into a serial killer.
“The Great and Secret Show” by Clive Barker (Harpercollins, 1990) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Fletcher soon discovers a liquid form of the Art known as nuncio, testing it first on a chimpanzee who becomes a human with the ability of speech and thought, known as Raul.
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Scicluna stressed that ordinary faithful have not only the right but the duty to inform the Vatican, via the papal nuncio or ambassador in each country, when a situation of abuse is affecting the life of the diocese.
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Luther and the papal nuncio cited in and see Kenneth M. Setton, “Lutheranism and the Turkish Peril,” Balkan Studies 3, no.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The nuncio will force the being to the next evolutionary step, but Richard also knows if Jaffe were to use it, it would focus on his urges of murder and revenge, making him into a serial killer.
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“We are occupied,” wrote a papal nuncio in 1523, in preparing for “the general war against the Turk,” as well as for “war against the nefarious Martin Luther, who is a greater evil to Christendom than the Turk.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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But it is too late, for Jaffe discovers the existence of the nuncio and in a fight both are infected by it and become higher beings – The Jaff and Fletcher.
“The Great and Secret Show” by Clive Barker (Harpercollins, 1990) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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