messenger

messenger
   A professional description which can be used vocatively. The Limits of Love, by Frederic Raphael, has a government minister saying: ‘Tell me, messenger, what entitles me to park my car outside the door but forbids Sir Samuel here to do so?’ The vocative occurs again in The Word Child, by Iris Murdoch, but on this occasion is a verbal incident term of address. One person says: ‘Of course I don’t know, I’m only the messenger.’ ‘Well, messenger,’ says the other, ‘you’d better go then. You’ve done your job. Go.’

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