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post_scriptum
post scriptum
See also: postscriptum
English
Noun
post scriptum (plural post scripta)
- Alternative form of postscriptum
- 1839, George Gordon N. Byron, Life, letters and journals of lord Byron, with notes, [by T. Moore]:
- Post Scriptum — Long as this letter has grown, I find it necessary to append a postscript ; if possible, a short one.
- 1904, Ohio state medical society, Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting:
- Post Scriptum — I regret that time does not permit me to re-write and correct and condense the whole of this communication.
- 2004, Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World:
- Have you ever written “PS” at the end of a letter? If so, you've used Latin words. “PS” stands for the Latin words “post scriptum”, or “after the writing”.
- 1839, George Gordon N. Byron, Life, letters and journals of lord Byron, with notes, [by T. Moore]:
Latin
Phrase
- postscript, after text, literary afterthought (at the end of any text)
- after the written part