Meaning of postscriptum | Babel Free

Definitions

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

rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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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