afterlifen.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. C.iv When the endeuor of youth shal proue naught els but the exercise of all abuses, is it like that a mans after life shall be without blemish.

1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xv. sig. I8 My after life..is not without profit.

a1678 H. Scougal Life of God (1726) 204 The lessons which afflictions teach us, are then most advantageous when we learn them betimes, that we have the use of them in the conduct of our after lives.

1754 J. Burgh Dignity of Human Nature 111 A course of..instructions..must..give it [sc. the young mind] a cast toward the virtuous side, which it must at least find some difficulty in getting the better of in after-life.

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 531 Habits of attention, which may be useful to them in their after life.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) Notes 574 Untutor'd minds stop here, and after life Leads them no farther.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiv. 199 My history was not written in after-life.

1858 Harper's Mag. Apr. 643/2 The faculty of veneration, which in her after-life was beautifully manifested.

1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows vii. 157 Lest..the great haunting memory should spoil all the after-lives of little animals helped out of difficulties.

1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 77 He gives a picture of the after-life of the stockinged Fauntleroys.

1990 J. Hankins Plato in Ital. Renaissance I. iv. i. 269 For Luca, who also taught him music, Ficino retained in after life a certain veneration.

1598 E. Blount in C. Marlowe Hero & Leander Ep. Ded. sig. Aiij The impression of the man, that hath beene deare vnto vs, liuing an after life in our memory, there putteth vs in mind of farther obsequies.

1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 149 Saduces..denied the Resurrection, and by consequence any after-life.

a1756 A. Campbell Authenticity of Gospel-hist. Justified (1759) I. Pref. p. x The Apostles..introduced and propagated the knowledge of the true God, and the assurance of an after-life and immortality.

1823 Literary Examiner 19 July 34 Rewards and punishments, in an after life, will then be the just and inevitable consequence of the exalting or the degrading of our nature in this.

1858 W. W. Sanger Hist. Prostitution 19 The threatened punishments of an after-life were futile to deter men from seeking..sinful pleasures in this world.

1883 E. F. Smith In Vain Shadow III. xxii. 365 I scarcely think the after-life can have tortures to exceed those I am doomed to suffer here.

1925 F. W. Norwood in J. Marchant Life after Death 70 Concerning Jesus and the After Life.

1954 N. Coward Diary 19 Mar. (2000) 260 How can we ever succeed in tidying up this life if half our minds are concentrated upon an unproven and most problematical afterlife?

2003 J. Haldane Intelligent Person's Guide to Relig. i. 23 Those who fail to heed the call will be punished in the afterlife.

1948 World Politics 1 91 The cartoon..had an after-life in the next century, being redrawn to suit the politics of a later date.

1959 Kenyon Rev. 21 166 The standard he employs is single, the afterlife of the work guaranteed by a conjunction of two ‘rightnesses’—the social and the artistic.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 31/1 Benjamin's study of what might be called the post-history or the afterlife of works of literature has spurred the recent interest in the ‘history of reception’ among younger critics in Germany.

1992 N.Y. Times 25 July 37/2 (heading) Sneakers find an afterlife as Nike starts recycling.

2007 M. W. J. Spaul in P. M. Burns & M. Novelli Tourism & Politics xv. 288 The [railway] line which led on to Easton Lodge now enjoys an afterlife as a long-distance footpath.