Diplomatic vs Rude - What's the difference?
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Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
* Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture).''
Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
* 1983 , Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
As adjectives the difference between diplomatic and rude
is that diplomatic is concerning the relationships between the governments of countries while rude is bad-mannered.As a noun diplomatic
is the science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.diplomatic
English
Alternative forms
* diplomatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
- Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
- Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, ''Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.
Derived terms
* diplomatic bag * diplomatic flu * diplomatic immunity * diplomatic mission * diplomatic pouch * diplomatic relationsNoun
(-)- In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.
rude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject