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ˈafter-days, n. pl.
[after- 9 and after a. 3 a.]
Later or subsequent days. Less commonly sing., a subsequent day or period.
1635Quarles Emblemes ii. xiii. 113 But something whispers in my dying eare, There is an After-day; which day I feare. 1700S. Wesley Ep. to Friend conc. Poetry line 451 Like old Ennius he design'd What After-days have polish'd and refin'd. 1795Southey Joan of Arc i. 173 Happy those Who in the after-days shall live. 1814Wordsworth Excursion i. 153 In the after day Of boyhood. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxi, That celebrated Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, who, in his afterdays, was known by the epithet of the Tiger-Earl. a1878Caswall Tale of Tintern (1907) iv. v. 49 And He thine offering will repay Most fully in an after day! 1878Hopps Life of Jesus ii. 10 In after days his mother understood his meaning well. 1904Hardy Dynasts i. i. iii. 43 To retrospective eyes of afterdays. |