aftertime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aftertime
Example Sentences
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I understand where she’s coming from, but the bottom line is that they’ve showed us time aftertime that they can’t be trusted.
From Time • Nov. 23, 2011
In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted
Loti would take from the brutes the one privilege for which men may envy them, and endows them with a knowledge of the aftertime that we have only by revelation.
This treasure has disappeared, but it was said by men of Henry's day and aftertime, who saw it in the monastery of Alçobaça, to show "as much or more discovered in time past than now."
From Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by Beazley, C. Raymond
All this the gods have fashioned, and have woven the skein of death for men, that there might be a song in the ears even of the folk of aftertime.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
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