sendling

One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.

Noun

  1. One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
    • […] 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...
    • 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. - 1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153:

Origin

From send + -ling.

Forms

sendlings