post-postscript

An addendum added after a postscript.

Noun

  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...
    • 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...
    • He rushes on helter-skelter, as the fancy takes him, into postscripts longer than his letters, and post-postscripts longer than all. - a. 1933, Lytton Strachey, Characters and Commentaries, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt,...

    Synonyms: PPS

Origin

From post- + postscript.

Forms

post-postscripts postpostscript