ambassage

plural ambassages

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of embassage (“message, embassy”).

   To thee I send this written ambassage, To witness duty, not to show my wit.

   1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 26”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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   Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges, And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d: […]

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v

   Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke xiv:32