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post-postscript

post-postscript noun: an addendum added after a postscript.

Noun

post-postscript (plural post-postscripts)

  1. An addendum added after a postscript.
    • There was the first burst of Gladstonian reconciliation at the Devonshire, and then the apparent return to Unionist orthodoxy at Liskeard, and then the relapse in the letter to the people of Aberdeen, and now the protestation of persistence in that relapse at the Eighty Club, together with not a...1887 May 21, “More Last Words from Sir George Trevelyan”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 63, number 1,647, page 723, column 1
    • He wrote at enormous speed, and his thought often travelling quicker than his pen led to inevitable and sometimes famous postscripts and post-postscripts.1921 April 16, “An Appreciation. (From an Irish Correspondent.)”, in The Tablet: A Weekly Newspaper and Review, volume 138, number 4,223, London, page 498, column 1
    Synonyms:
    PPS

Synonyms of post-postscript

Forms of post-postscript

pluralpost-postscripts
alternative formpostpostscript

Origin of post-postscript

From post- + postscript.

Questions about post-postscript

What does post-postscript mean?
Post-postscript means an addendum added after a postscript.
What part of speech is post-postscript?
Post-postscript is a noun.
What is the plural of post-postscript?
The plural of post-postscript is post-postscripts.

Words near post-postscript in the dictionary

  1. post-phenomenology
  2. post-phlebitic
  3. post-phlebitic syndrome
  4. post-postmodernism
  5. post-postmodernist
  6. post-postscript
  7. post-postscripts
  8. post-prandial
  9. post-process
  10. post-processed
  11. post-processes

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