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- noun
Written afterwards ;appended . Abbreviated asP.S. orPS .
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Examples
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In later years when Clay told this story he would conclude: 'And I wanted to add my postscriptum: "You ought to be ashamed of your - selves to treat a general this way," but when I tried to say this to the general himself, he brushed me aside: "It's what happens when politicians try to direct wars."'
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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This desultory campaigning in Normandy was little more than a postscriptum, an afterthought, a means of filling in the interim between what was past and what was to come, and as yet unrevealed.
A Rare Benedictine Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988
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The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of ‘my pamphlet’ (he called it), as it was sure to have in the future a good influence upon his career.
Heart of Darkness 1960
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I offered him the report on the ‘Suppression of Savage Customs,’ with the postscriptum torn off.
Heart of Darkness 1960
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My need of a passport only appeared in a postscriptum, wherein I begged him to arrange that little affair for me in some way by correspondence.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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A thousand prisoners were to be distributed among some eight courtiers and others, whilst a postscriptum to his lordship's letter asked for a further hundred to be held at the disposal of the Queen.
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912
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There and then she wrote out a passport for him and an order for a seat in the Duke's diligence as far as the frontier; she gave him a purse of gold, and, more precious still, an official command to all to treat the deformed traveller with consideration; also, as postscriptum, an intimation that if the dwarf did not reach his home safe and unrobbed, she would cause the whole Secret
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There is a pathetic letter from the Duchess-mother to her son, a dignified epistle with a very human postscriptum, wherein bubbles over a mother's hatred for her son's seducer, the honest woman's furious disdain of the triumphant charm of an adventuress.
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Possibly, had the Duchess-mother denied herself the satisfaction of writing this postscriptum, Eberhard Ludwig might indeed have returned to
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The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of 'my pamphlet' (he called it), as it was sure to have in the future a good influence upon his career.
Heart of Darkness 1902
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