aftertimen.
/ˈɑːftətʌɪm/, /ˈaftətʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌtaɪm/ Later or future times; posterity (frequently in plural). Also: a time following an incident or act; a later point or juncture.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun]
to-comec1350
the futurec1400
hereafter1546
tocoming1556
aftertime1557
after age1560
after hours1599
futuritya1616
afterwards1669
to-be1819
coming1833
by and by1868
hence1904
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 112 In after time ech wight may see, How vertue can with beauty beare degree.
1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs vi. 53 We youthes are such a retchlesse route as do not wey a white The aftertime to come.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iii. xix. 80 What Accedents in after-tymes should happen in this Land.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 276 You are too shallow Hastings,..To sound the bottome of the after times . View more context for this quotation
?1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike sig. H5v When after-times shall make a quest of inquirie, to examine the best of this Age.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 143 As Withers in Immortal Rime Has registerd, to after-time.
1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 23 The Uncertainty..made their Fear yet greater... This was what in after-times Men call'd a Pannick.
1734 J. Swift Cassinus & Peter in Beautiful Nymph 29 These Rhimes, A Monument to after-Times.
1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 19 To remember their strange light in many a dream Of after-times.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 5 Wheresoever I am sung or told In aftertime, this also shall be known.
1861 W. E. Gladstone Let. 11 Jan. in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1882) III. iv. 105 This might be dealt with at an aftertime.
1906 M. Rice Poems 53 Oh, from a moment's happiness could we But take a little bit for aftertimes!
1939 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 Apr. 12/2 In aftertimes their grim experience will have become a memory which they would not willingly let die.
2005 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Mag.) 20 She [sc. a photographer] got the best out of her time, and she recorded much of it for our aftertime.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† aftertimeconj.
Obsolete.
After the time that; once.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > succession [conjunction] > when, after, or after the time that
aftereOE
afterOE
thatOE
aftertime1443
afterward1483
artera1746
1443 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 89 (MED) My will ys yat George my son hafe, efter tyme my dettes be paide, a rent charge of xxvj s. viij d.
c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 34 Aftertyme viii of these knyghtes be departed from court.
?1492 tr. Raymond of Capua Lyf St. Katherin of Senis (de Worde) iii. vi. sig. piijv/2 And after tyme she was beryed, our lord by myracle clensyd hyr from hyr lepre in hyr hondes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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