Definition of "persona grata" []

• Fully acceptable or welcome, especially to a foreign government: The diplomat was persona grata. (adjective)

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• "Distrusting his own powers of persuasion, he enlisted the good offices of Barbier, the late partner of the Rue des Marais printing-house, who was a persona grata with the novelist."
• "At Nunappleton House Oliver was not a persona grata in 1650, for he had no sooner come back from Ireland than he had stepped into the shoes of the Lord-General Fairfax; and there were those, Lady Fairfax, I doubt not, among the number, who believed that the new Lord-General thought it was high time he should be where Fairfax's “scruple” at last put him."
• "This lady was a much poorer actress, but was a persona grata with Monsieur Hostein."