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Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: lettre missive 'letter intended to be sent'

missive

 noun
     
Related topics: Mail
mis‧sive [countable] literary
TCM a letter - often used humorously:
An anonymous missive had been pushed under her door.
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