post-postscript

See also: postpostscript

English

Alternative forms

• postpostscript

Etymology

From post- +‎ postscript.

Noun

post-postscript (plural post-postscripts)

1. An addendum added after a postscript.

   Synonym: PPS

   • 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:

     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 few minor manifestoes, explanations, postscripts, post-postscripts, and so forth, and even more recently the address at Manchester.

   • 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:

     He wrote at enormous speed, and his thought often travelling quicker than his pen led to inevitable and sometimes famous postscripts and post-postscripts.

   • a. 1933, Lytton Strachey, Characters and Commentaries, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, published 1933, page 53:

     He rushes on helter-skelter, as the fancy takes him, into postscripts longer than his letters, and post-postscripts longer than all.