postscript

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

POSTSCRIPT, noun [Latin post, after, and scriptum, written.] A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; or any addition made to a book or composition after it had been supposed to be finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.
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