hereafter 🔊 adv US /hɪɹˈæftɚ/ · UK /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
Etymology From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
2 Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
3 Dated
She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth: […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer:
hereafter 🔊 noun Etymology From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1:
hereafter 🔊 adj Etymology From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
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