Post-postscript
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 few minor manifestoes, explanations, postscripts, post-postscripts, and so forth, and even more recently the address at Manchester."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From post- + postscript.
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