Meanings
plural postdatings
- human sciencesA later citation of a lexical item.
The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.
1 more example
Indeed, for 10 of these terms, the latest known record was their inclusion in Hobson-Jobson, and without any published postdatings this may have suggested that those terms were obsolescent at the end of the nineteenth century.
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of postdate
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postdating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdating
“postdating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdating. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postdating,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdating.
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