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1819 Catholic Vindicator 20 Nov. 810/2 P.P. of Armagh.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 304 The very rev. Timothy canon Gorman, P. P.

1991 ‘W. Trevor’ Reading Turgenev vii, in Two Lives (1992) 65 ‘Father Curtin. Whippersnapper with sideburns.’ ‘I remember the man well.’ ‘Changes were made when the p.p. got a whiff of it.’

1925 J. Goldberger & W. F. Tanner in Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 40 77 It would seem as if the heretofore unrecognized pellagra-preventive factor, to which we shall hereafter refer as factor P-P, were capable of preventing the disease with little if any cooperation from the protein factor of the diet.

1942 F. Bicknell & F. Prescott Vitamins in Med. v. 259 Nicotinic acid was at first hailed as the PP or pellagra preventing factor, but it is now known that pellagra is a multiple deficiency disease and that lack of nicotinic acid is only one of the factors in its causation.

1967 H. A. Guthrie Introd. Nutrition xii. 240/2 Niacin, another water-soluble vitamin identified with the B complex, has been known as nicotinic acid and as the pellagra preventative (P–P) factor.

1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. 235 P.P. Endorsements, endorsements by procuration—that is, per-procuration... The following is the usual form of a per-pro endorsement. ‘Pay to the Order of Blanc & Co. Per Pro Shipley & Sons. Thos. Brown.’

1967 E. Lemarchand Death of Old Girl i. 12 All the other letters can wait... Sign the ones we've done p.p.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 20 Some of his [sc. J. K. Galbraith's] directives were signed p.p. by a young pen -pusher called Richard M Nixon.

1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. 53 The letter P is often used as an Abbreviation of the Word piano: and PP as an Abbreviation of the Words piu piano: and PPP as an Abbreviation of the Word pianissimo.

1966 Listener 2 June 815/2 Helga Pilarczyk..often ignored the composer's repeated demands for pp or sometimes ppp singing.

1993 H. Stevens Life & Music Béla Bartók (ed. 3) ii. 119 Bartók, ordinarily content with a dynamic compass ranging from pp to ff, here writes ppp and fff in an effort to expand the expressive range.