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missive
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synonyms: edict, ukase, ~epistle , ~chit, ~dictum ???
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Definition:1. a formal or official letter2. [obsolete] {adj} serving as a projectile, as a missile
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He ripped at the envelope. “M. Minkoff has apparently responded to my missive with a rather frantic urgency. I told her off quite viciously.”
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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It was clear from Colia's face how painful it was to him to deliver the missive. The prince read it, rose, and took his hat.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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many misgivings I had, ere I could prevail on myself to put the missive into Mrs. Linton’s hand.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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those three hasty missives were as jumbled in the palms of my hands
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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The Houyhnhnms indeed appear not to be so well prepared for war, a science to which they are perfect strangers, and especially against missive weapons.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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Apparently, while we had been living abroad, someone had sent a missive to all Western women under the age of twenty-five: Put a large tattoo above your butt. Another directive must have been sent to the men: Tattoo barbed wire around your arm.
J. Maarten Troost. Getting Stoned with Savages (2006)
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