[Ads-l] Antedating of "Diplomacy"

[Shapiro, Fred]

diplomacy (OED 1796)

1795 John Quincy Adams _Letter to John Adams_ 12 Sept. (Founders Online)  A Minister Plenipotentiary from the french Republic has arrived here a few days since. We have hitherto visited only by cards, in the style of etiquette still preserved in their diplomacy.

Fred Shapiro

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