messengerly
adjEtymology From messenger + -ly.
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Characteristic of a messenger.
- I'm just the messenger. […] Not the authority on how these things are done. And I don't think I should talk about it with you before I've done my messengerly duties.2015, Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus:
- Although distressing and truly contemporary, this cellular and messengerly death presents itself to us as endowed with the same meaning as the other ones.2019, Michel Serres, Hominescence, page 4: