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Missive vs Omissive - What's the difference?

missive | omissive |

As adjectives the difference between missive and omissive

is that missive is specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent while omissive is tending to omit things.

As a noun missive

is (formal) a written message; a letter, note or memo.

missive

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
  • * 2008 , Claire Armistead, The Guardian , 25 Oct 2008:
    • 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.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick , Chapter 71:
    • "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.
  • (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
    • Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
    • a letter missive
    (Ayliffe)
  • missile
  • * Dryden
    • The missive weapons fly.
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    omissive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • tending to omit things
  • caused by omission
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