Hereafter
[hɪər'ɑːftə] or ['hɪr'æftɚ]
Definition
(adv.) following this in time or order or place; after this; 'hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance'.
(adv.) in a future life or state; 'hope to win salvation hereafter'.
Inputed by Kurt--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In time to come; in some future time or state.
(n.) A future existence or state.
Edited by Lancelot
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. In time to come, in some future time.[2]. In a future state.
n. Future state.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- Let us not, through security in hereafter, neglect the present. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Tears are given them here for meat and drink--bread of affliction and waters of affliction--their recompence comes hereafter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Hereafter the Huns, so far as that name goes in Europe, the Huns of Attila, disappeared out of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Do you ever think of the hereafter? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To solve the mystery of the eternal hereafter, I imagine, I replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Hereafter I would keep my grief to myself, and so I said nothing to any other of the fact that we were too late. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I know that hereafter the picture I first spoke of will look odd to me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Give me the proof I am going to ask, of your real genuine ardour, and I shall hereafter look up to you as something superior to the rest of mankind. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The apparent dropping of a pipe from the clouds towards the earth or sea, I will endeavour to explain hereafter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- May you meet with all the respect you merit here, and forgiveness hereafter. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Pray allow yourself to be guided by a more mature and practical mind hereafter when in need of wise counsel. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Suppose it should be discovered hereafter that a gem of art has been amongst us in this town, and nobody in Middlemarch awake to it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They only worshipped a beautiful hope for a life of love and peace and happiness in the hereafter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Typist: Pierce