postdating

English

Noun

postdating (plural postdatings)

1. (lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item.

   The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256:

     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.

Verb

postdating

1. present participle and gerund of postdate