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ˈafterˌcomer
[after- 2, 9.]
One coming after, a successor; pl. posterity.
1382Wyclif Levit. xxii. 3 Sey to hem and to the after⁓comers of hem. 1563J. Man Musculus Com. Pl. 13 a, All their after comers gat the same bleamishe and corruption. 1611J. Guillim Displ. Herald. To Reader, I have broken the Ice, and made way to some after-commers of greter gifts and riper judgment. 1703Maundrell Journey (1721) 68 They leave very little to be added by After-comers. c1705Berkeley in Fraser Life 448 The passage of after-comers is made more secure and easy. 1853D. Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. xi. 55 That one church which Christ..left to be taught and governed by his apostles and their after-comers in the apostleship. 1879G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) 40 After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. 1958E. Blunden War Poets 1914–18 ii. 19 When after-comers walk through some well-tended war cemetery. |