post-existencen.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 38 These two things were alwaies included together, in that one opinion of the Soul's Immortality, namely its Preexistence as well as its Postexistence.

1755 Spectator No. 211. ⁋167 Some of the ancient Philosophers have..satirized the vicious Part of the human Species in general, from a Notion of the Soul's Post existence.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 249 The spirits..who know nothing of their Pre-existence and scarce anything of their Post-existence.

1865 G. Grote Plato III. 27 The post-existence, as well as the pre-existence of the Soul is affirmed in the concluding books.

1878 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 111 Mr. Cook's line of argument connects itself with, or rather rests upon, the old heathen conception of an inherent and necessary immortality, and involves eternal pre-existence as well as post-existence.

1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home xxxiv. 195 One of those intimations of pre-existance [sic] which are rather commoner with us as we get on in life than the intimations of post-existence.

1946 Mind 55 177 On the same supposition we must assume that human beings survive the death of their present bodies and that they will have an unending post-existence.

2001 Church Times 12 Oct. 19/1 That deceptively simple hymn gives clear expression not only to the pre-existence of Christ, but also to what may be called his post-existence: ‘For that Child so dear and gentle Is our Lord in heaven above.’

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 422 Not denying a pre-existency to Christ's human Body (in the Arian sense..it being suppos'd to be as much a Creature as the least post-existency of a Worm).