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[ heer-af-ter, -ahf- ] / hɪərˈæf tər, -ˈɑf- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hereafter ON THESAURUS.COM
adverbafter this in time or order; at some future time; farther along. in the time to follow; from now on: Hereafter I will not accept their calls. in the life or world to come. hereinafter. nouna life or existence after death; the future beyond mortal existence. time to come; the future. Origin of hereafterbefore 900; Middle English; Old English hēræfter.See here, after Words nearby hereafterherd tester, Herdwick, here, hereabout, hereabouts, hereafter, here and now, here and there, hereat, hereaway, hereby Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hereafterIn his City of God, Augustine was quite clear that in the hereafter humans would no longer need bathroom breaks. Sorry, Internet: Pope Francis Didn't Open Paradise to Pets|Candida Moss|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST It combined the rambling, torturous pace of J. Edgar, the oddball clairvoyance of Hereafter, and … that line from Dirty Harry. Clint Eastwood’s RNC Speech: Ben Affleck and Other Hollywood Insiders React|Marlow Stern|September 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST “I think he has a nice philosophical plan for the fiscal hereafter, two or three decades down the road,” Stockman sniffed. Reagan Budget Guru: Shut It Down!|Lloyd Grove|April 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST Our general caused some calevers to be shot off at them, whereby, some being hurt, they might hereafter stand in more fear of us. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage|Richard Hakluyt
If you ever mean to do so hereafter, let it be Miss Martineau's Deerbrook. The Life of John Sterling|Thomas Carlyle But, for this foul deed, the wrath of Jove shall rest upon them here and hereafter.' Elson Grammar School Literature, Book Four.|William H. Elson If a man will not obey God with a warm heart, he may hereafter have to do it with a cold one. Sermons Preached at Brighton|Frederick W. Robertson Hereafter I'll try to enjoy myself and do my duty by my subjects. The Emerald City of Oz|L. Frank Baum
British Dictionary definitions for hereafter
adverbformal in a subsequent part of this document, matter, case, etc a less common word for henceforth at some time in the future in a future life after death noun the hereafterlife after death the future Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hereafterafterlife, heaven, underworld, by-and-by, future, hell, afterworld, offing, eventually, hence, henceforth, ultimately, hereupon, afterward, future life, aftertime, the beyond, to-be |