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Meanings of missive in English
Usage of missive in English
1
He had a few minutes yet, to compose his missive to Estabrook.
2
I looked down at the short, typed missive, dated two months earlier.
3
The present missive, however, was misleading; its contents proved to be these:
4
They brought back with them a missive, couched in the following terms:-
5
He went to the window and opened the missive with simulated indifference.
6
Walker began her missive by lamenting the corporatization of the powerful moment.
7
That missive urged the president to stop tapping RIAA insidersto his administration.
8
Sandridge quickly explained to his men the official part of the missive.
9
Alexander spread the missive that had been given him upon the table.
10
With recaptured alertness, he held the missive to the light, and read:
11
The other, the second missive from the Electress, you must give me.
12
Rodney noticed that this missive was written in a handsome business hand.
13
Holding that missive in my hand a thought suddenly occurred to me.
14
This weighed on my mind as I read a missive from Julia:
15
But the Iron King sent back a curt missive declining his offer.
16
The good man was much surprised by the contents of this missive.
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Missive through the time
Missive across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common