missive

Definition

A written message; a letter, note or memo.

Etymology

15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

Example Sentences

• "[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[…]"
• "The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents."