postpostscript

See also: post-postscript

English

Noun

postpostscript (plural postpostscripts)

1. Alternative form of post-postscript.
   • 1956, Productivity in Industry: A Round Table Discussion (Studies in Business Economics; 51), [New York, N.Y.]: [s.n.], page 65:

     mr. smith: Postscript—that can’t come about except through price inflation— / mr. backman: Postpostscript—price inflation will have no effect because depreciation is determined by what we have already invested in a plant.

   • 1972 June, The Australian EEB, volume 8, number 3, pages 61–62:

     Postscript / → Hot carrier diodes in the crystal set do not work as well as good germanium point contact types (OA90, 1N69, etc), but better than poor ones (e.g. some from the computer boards). […] Postpostscript: / In the May (not April) 1972 issue of QST is reprinted an announcement from March 1920 telling how an ordinary crystal set may be made to oscillate simply by applying bias to the crystal (and the way the diagram looks, it is back biased -⁠- some kind of negative resistance zener effect?).

   • 1979, Sean O’Faolain, And Again?, Birch Lane Press, Carol Publishing Group, published 1989, →ISBN, page 99:

     Postscript: I have written all these pages to know myself. […] Postpostscript: A date, June 1971. Seven months after Ana’s death I created a job for myself.

   • 1979, John Barth, Letters: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 40:

     Enough for this postpostscript to say that Affair E had ended, painfully, last summer: as sore a business as Aeneas’s jilting Dido, but not, I trust, so fatal.

   • 1984, G A Watson, “The numerical solution of total l_p approximation problems”, in David F. Griffiths, editor, Numerical Analysis: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference Held at Dundee, Scotland, June 28 – July 1, 1983 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics; 1066), Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, N.Y., Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 238:

     Postscript If J(v̰⁽ⁱ⁾) is nonsingular for all i, it may be shown that the iteration (4.14) is globally convergent from any feasible initial approximation provided that l < p ≤ 2. / Postpostscript Reference 5 will appear in SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput.

   • 1985, Charles Neider, Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 35:

     A postscript. Louise Sheffield Brownell was born in 1870 (two years before Susy) and died in 1961 at ninety-one. […] A postpostscript. According to Silvia Saunders, Jesse Benedict Carter (1872–1917) of Princeton was a “close friend of Louise’s in Europe in 1893 and afterwards. […]”

   • 1985, Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 227:

     Postpostscript / Funny business. I labored for three years to write a monograph on the evolution of Bermudian land snails, and only nine people have ever cited the resulting tome.

   • [1986, Joyce M[ary] Hawkins, editor, The Oxford Reference Dictionary, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 654, column 1:

     PPS abbr. 1. Parliamentary Private Secretary. 2. additional postscript (postpostscript).]

   • 1990, Ron Tepper, The Only 250 Letters and Memos Managers Will Ever Need, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 124:

     The letter closes with a P.S. / P.S. Remember, guns have been proven winners for years. Find out if they have a place in your investment portfolio. / This still may be hard for consumers to believe, so the writer offers a free catalog in a postpostscript.

   • 1992, Raybon Kan, 5 Days in Las Vegas, Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, →ISBN, page 58:

     Postpostscript / I don’t know if Wakefield Hospital is very authentic.

   • 1992, Ed Downs, Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method: Application and Context, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 245:

     PPS is a potential abbreviation of physical process specification. It is also the abbreviation for postpostscript, as used on letters for additional words added after the main body of the letter (and the postscript) has been completed. […] Physical design may be a postpostscript to systems analysis and logical design. It is however the beginning of the major work of constructing and testing the new system.

   • 1997, Herb Payson, Advice to the Sealorn, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Sheridan House, →ISBN, page 95:

     postpostscript: For those voyagers heading to the Caribbean who are thinking of stepping up to speedier times, there are still bargains to be bought in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, where both rigid bottom dinghies and name-brand outboards can be had at a considerable discount from prices elsewhere.

   • 1999, Faith Stewart-Gordon, The Russian Tea Room: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, →ISBN, page 188:

     Postpostscript: The Russian Tea Room served 2,647 pounds of caviar in an average year and 5,884 liter bottles of vodka.

   • [2006, Anne Finger, “PPS”, in Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 267:

     Back when I was a child, even into my adulthood, at the end of letters there was sometimes the abbreviation “P.S.” And occasionally, after that, a “P.P.S.”—“postpostscript,” my mother explained.]

   • 2006, Mark W. Chavalas, editor, The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History), Malden, Mass., Oxford, Oxon, Melbourne, Vic.: Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 210:

     (Postscript, 64–70) To the scribe of the king, my lord, speak: Message of Abdi-Ḫeba, your servant. […] (Postpostscript, 71–8) And please treat the evil deed as the responsibility of the men of Kush.

   • 2007, Susanna Hoe, Watching the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987–97, Oxford, Oxon: HOLO Books, The Women’s History Press, →ISBN, page 191:

     Postscript / Back in England with my books again I find confirmation that, in exploring the work and crafts of women, most studies concentrate on spinning and weaving. […] Postpostscript / I sent the above to Patrick who elaborated for me the process from clay to market in which different groups of people would be independently responsible for each part.

   • 2013, Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte: Journal of Religious and Cultural Studies, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, page 332:

     "Thomas Sherlock, The tryal of the witnesses of the Resurrection, Edinburgh 1729~˜ see also the account of Wollston’s trial: An Account of the trial of T. W. […] for writing, printing, publishing four blasphemous books On the Miracles of Our Saviour, etc, Dublin/London 1729~˜ John Asgill, Asgill upon Woolston~˜ being an abstract of Mr. Woolston’s six discourses against the miracles of Christ, be the same more or less and a ridicule thereof with a postscript, and a postpostscript, printed by A. Campbell, sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1730.

     Originally hyphenated.