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   missive

   /ˈmɪsɪv/

   noun

   • 1. a letter, especially a long or official one: "yet another missive from the Foreign Office"
   • ▪ a document in the form of a letter exchanged by the parties to a contract.

   Word Origin late Middle English (as an adjective, originally in the phrase letter missive): from medieval Latin missivus, from Latin mittere ‘send’. The current sense dates from the early 16th century.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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   A missive usually refers to the old-school style of hand-written communication on paper (remember that?), but these days you also might hear an email called a missive. No matter how you deliver it, a missive is a message.

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