单词 | after-glory |
释义 | > as lemmasafter-glory (iii) Denoting something following after a period of time, esp. as a consequence, result, or reaction, as after-account, after-chance, after-consequence, after-cost, after-fame, after-fruit, after-glory, after-good, after-influence, after-memory, after-remedy, after-turn, etc. ΚΠ OE Genesis A (1931) 76 Heo..susl þrowedon þystrum beþeahte, þearl æfterlean þæs þe heo ongunnon wið Gode winnan. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 1996 (MED) Þei nat koude of necligence se Þe aftir-fal of her felicite. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 36v Not sowed for present necessitie, but for other afterturnes. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiv. 788 What will be the euent and afterchaunce of things. 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea 255 I haue acquainted you with the best course I know as yet, both for the first informing, and the after-setling of your iudgement in Gods truth. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xc. sig. F3v Ioine with the spight of fortune, make me bow. And doe not drop in for an after losse. 1615 A. Hoskins tr. Thomas à Kempis Following of Christ (new ed.) i. xiii. 33 Withstand the beginnings, for an after-remedie comes often too late. 1624 T. Scott Belgick Souldier sig. A4v Liuing as if we should neuer die, and dying as if there were no after account to be made. 1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 238 That was appointed as a Foil of his after-Glory, which was shut up in this Cloud like the Sun-beams in Curtains of Crystal. 1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (ed. 3) sig. b2v To deterr men from either speaking or doing what is amiss, for fear of after-Infamy with Posterity. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 43 Skinning over her Wounds for the present..will be sure to cure them, into an after Rottenness and Suppuration. 1766 E. Gay Sovereignty of God 10 Dismal as this Event may appear in itself, the after Consequences will be happy for them. 1771 D. Henry Compl. Eng. Farmer iii. 24 The after cost of keeping such a number of buildings in tenantable repair. 1790 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1035/2 Where find a subject for an after-grief? 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 14 Sept. 73 The sense of a disproportion of a certain after harm to present gratification. 1828 C. Caldwell Disc. on Genius & Char. of H. Holley 134 The so often named President of Yale, who celebrated its beauties in verse, and who retained an after influence on its destinies. 1879 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Rhona xxix. 309 No after-penitence, no deepest remorse, can atone for a moment's deviation from the right path. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 393 In the highest phase..there is no after-memory whatever until the next trance comes. 1910 Photogr. Times May 173 The after-good to be obtained by the use of this plan. 1924 S. C. Chew (title) Byron in England. His fame and after-fame. 1950 E. Robertson Old Test. Probl. 20 It was a grievous sign—the first after-fruits of the disruption. 2009 New Yorker 7 Dec. 94/3 Like all after-stories of beloved leaders, the musical's account of Fela has notable omissions. < as lemmas |
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