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What is the noun for legation?

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legate
  1. A deputy representing the Pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
  2. An ambassador or messenger.
  3. The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The legate from the United Nations arrived to negotiate a peace treaty between the warring nations.”
legacy
  1. (law) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
  2. Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage.
  3. (university and society admissions) The descendant of an alumnus.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I was lucky enough to inherit a small legacy from a distant relative which game me a helpful start in life.”
      “The centuries-old grand station remains in operation today, a legacy of the country's pioneers from yesteryear.”
legation
  1. The post or office of a legate; a legateship.
  2. A diplomatic mission.
  3. The official residence of a diplomat.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “After the wars, when Bulgaria was experiencing a serious economic and political crisis, Yovkov was appointed clerk at the Bulgarian legation in Bucharest, Romania.”
      “The soldiers at the legation stayed in their tents to maintain the appearance that they were guarding something.”
      “Not until the creation of the British legation in 1915 were formal diplomatic relations re-established with Rome.”
legateship
  1. The office or authority of a legate.
legatee
  1. (law) One who receives a legacy.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The duty owed by the solicitors to the specific legatees is not a duty to take care to ensure that the specific legatee receives his legacy.”
      “Further, there is no reason why a legatee cannot effectively renounce his entitlement to shares without executing a deed.”
      “In fact, it was the assignee of the legatee, but the difference is immaterial.”
legature
  1. (obsolete) legateship
legatary
  1. A legatee.
legator
  1. A donor.
legateships
  1. plural of legateship
legations
legataries
  1. plural of legatary
legatees
  1. plural of legatee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The duty owed by the solicitors to the specific legatees is not a duty to take care to ensure that the specific legatee receives his legacy.”
      “A will nominating no heir, but only legatees, i.e. persons who will receive certain objects or rights, is called a codicil.”
      “The neoconservatives, Piereson says in summation, are Kennedy's true legatees.”
legators
  1. plural of legator
legates
  1. plural of legate
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    1. “He also sent two papal legates over to England to negotiate these reparations.”
      “Delegation was essential in so unwieldy an entity, and, like his predecessors, Augustus appointed senatorial legates and equestrian prefects to serve his imperium.”
      “Roy Keane and Sonia O'Sullivan recently got the freedom of Cork, joining a list of just 47 people which included 20 bishops, cardinal legates, papal nuncios and priests.”
legacies
  1. plural of legacy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When does less than full belief in a professed credo become actionable fraud if one is soliciting gifts or legacies?”
      “One of the legacies of this Papacy was his deep and abiding interest in matters such as the defence of human rights.”
      “The Super Bowl is the place where American football's great quarterbacks go to get rings and establish legacies.”
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