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ˈafter-time
[after- 9.]
A later or future time; posterity. Freq. in pl. (See also after a. 3 a.)
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV iv. ii. 52 You are too shallow (Hastings)..To sound the bottome of the after-Times. 1603S. Daniel Def. Ryme (1904) II. 380 When after⁓times shall make a quest of inquirie, to examine the best of this Age. 1664S. Butler Hudibras ii. iii. 170 As Withers in Immortal Rime Has registerd, to after-time. 1816Shelley Alastor 266 To remember their strange light in many a dream Of after-times. 1842Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 35 Wheresoever I am sung or told In aftertime, this also shall be known. 1858Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 48 It is for the slow critic of after-times to piece together their teaching. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xvi. 38l As a rule they [mystical states] carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time. |