Postscriptum

/ˌpəʊstˈskɹɪptəm/ · noun

Meaning

(rare) A thing that has been written afterwards; something appended in writing..

Example Sentences

1827, M. Corbett, The odd volume, containing a letter purporting to be from King James VI of Scotland to Sandie Fotheringhame, Laird o'Powrie, signed: James, R. Postscriptum. — Scotland for ever! The Dane’s beneath the table, and Rab’s on the tap o’t, blawing like the deevil.

Meanwhile, I remain—Ever yours, / Jehu Face. / Postscriptums I hate; but I think you had better / Keep snug to yourself the contents of this letter.

This confidence so daintily tossed to the baron, in the fashion of a postscriptum, was evidently the compensation for five thousand francs.

Sometimes she adds short postscriptums, but, though full of her doings and sayings, this correspondence contains but little that is really from Rosa Bonheur’s own pen.

[…] read the mother’s report to the students and pointed out to them how she evidently could not yet believe in a definite change, this being clear from her postscriptums “I know of” and “though with all the Christmas excitement. . . .”

Postscriptum for taxpayers: After having started with the high-temperature thriller we turned to applications of conventional superconductors.

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Word Forms

• postscripta
• postscriptums
• post scriptum
• postscript
• PS
• P.S.
• p.s.
• ps.

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