epistle
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Denizens of Port William speak of belonging to a “membership,” evoking both the concept of unity described in St. Paul’s epistles and the agricultural cooperatives that were established in the area in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
The elder Mr. Jenkins also wrote several books turning biblical narratives including John’s gospel and Paul’s epistles into page-turning epics, and wrote a “novelization” of the show’s first season.
From Washington Times • Jul. 7, 2021
“I wrote all sorts of ridiculous epistles while I was delirious.”
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2019
This kind of aphorism fills the space left not only by the epigram but by the epistles once exchanged by friends with time to be funny.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing epistle
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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Twelfth Night
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