Both Uses of
epistle
in
Great Expectations
- With an alphabet on the hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or two to print and smear this epistle:— "MI DEER JO i OPE U R KR WITE WELL i OPE i SHAL SON B HABELL 4 2 TEEDGE U JO AN THEN WE SHORL B SO GLODD AN WEN i M PRENGTD 2 U JO WOT LARX AN BLEVE ME INF XN PIP."†
Chpt 7 *
- It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this mysterious epistle again twice, before its injunction to me to be secret got mechanically into my mind.†
Chpt 52
Definition:
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(epistle) a letter -- especially a long, formal one
or:
a book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle