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Definition

a letter — especially a long, formal one

or:

a book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle

The Epistle of James advises: "Confess your sins to one another, that you may be healed."

The king read the letter, which he supposed was a loving and tender epistle La Valliere had destined for him.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Man in the Iron Mask
The most strident criticism came in the form of a dense, multipage epistle from Ambler, a tiny Inupiat village on the Kobuk River north of the Arctic Circle.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

epistle = letter

No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
T. She watched till the postman passed by, ran out to him with her epistle, and then again took her listless place inside the window-panes.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
'I kiss the hands of Madame F.' When he had finished this epistle, Rigaud folded it and tossed it with a flourish at Clennam's feet.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Poor Pim, I might have known what the effect of such an epistle would be.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
] [Footnote 110: The proverb is quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, X.24: "Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret."
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
It was in this stage of the correspondence that her mother had recourse to the plan of copying her own epistles.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
My aunt had written her one of the odd, abrupt notes — very little longer than a Bank note — to which her epistolary efforts were usually limited.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Mami scolded them all and continued The Epistle.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
I shall have matured my epistolary style.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
Morris replied with a passionate epistle, in which he asked to what, in Heaven's name, she wished to make up her mind.
Henry James -- Washington Square
No; so I yesterday addressed another epistle to her, still more pressing than the first.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
I vow it must have been your lady love's last cruel epistle you were trying to destroy.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
I took the book again, opened it in another place and showed him the Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter x. verse 31.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
The Edicts, Constitutions, and Epistles Of The Prince, that is, of the Emperour; because the whole power of the people was in him.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
When Briggs had read the epistle out, her patroness laughed more.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
I've an amazin' epistle from your friend.'
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim

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