messengerly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]messengerly (comparative more messengerly, superlative most messengerly)
- Characteristic of a messenger.
- 2015, Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus:
- 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.
- 2019, Michel Serres, Hominescence, page 4:
- Although distressing and truly contemporary, this cellular and messengerly death presents itself to us as endowed with the same meaning as the other ones.