Definitions
a written message addressed to a person or organization
Word origin
15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).
Used in a sentence
“[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.”
“The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]”
“"Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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