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afterling

noun, adj — 2 senses

afterling

noun

Etymology From Middle English afterling. Cognate with Scots afterling, efterling (“afterling”, adjective). By surface analysis, after + -ling.

1

Rare One who comes after or later; an aftercomer; one who is late.

  • Lange terms him "an afterling of the speculative Romanticism," and it seems clear that he is connected with the Hegelian Right and even with Schelling.1877, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin review:
  • [...] of fair probability, or unclouded possibility, he is not, in fair judgment justly subject to abuse or censure by some afterling, building upon his work, who happens to discover documents which he believes are unknown to the Colonel.1922, Albert Alonzo Pomeroy, History and genealogy of the Pomeroy family:

afterling

adj

Etymology From Middle English afterling. Cognate with Scots afterling, efterling (“afterling”, adjective). By surface analysis, after + -ling.

1

Scotland, Rare Coming after; later; subsequent; of later date; late in order of time or succession.

  • "That Heresie, whose afterling entry falling out in the dreg of all tymes doth render it suspect."1890, Notes and queries:

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