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ˈafter-light
[after- 9.]
An afterglow (also fig.); also, the light of what is known afterwards, hindsight.
1894W. J. Locke At Gate of Samaria xvi. 194 She..noticed a look upon Thornton's face, —the after-light, as it were, of a sneer, before the features had time to reset. 1923H. E. G. Rope City of Grail 47 The afterlight of sunset in those summers long gone by. 1940W. Empson Gathering Storm 32 When this leaves the green afterlight of day. 1950W. S. Churchill 2nd World War III. xxxiv. 585 These three documents, with which, in the afterlight..I am content. |