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afterlife

[ af-ter-lahyf, ahf- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also called future life. life after death.
the later part of a person's life:
the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.

afterlife

/ ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf /

First recorded in 1585–95; after + life

The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.

Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.

Last year, he created the critically acclaimed zombie-apocalypse-in-Riverdale themed title Afterlife With Archie.

In 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of Afterlife has sold out.

Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife.

And perhaps it was to a certain remorse in the tutor's mind that Elsmere owed an experience of great importance to his afterlife.

Why refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife?

The tone that colours our afterlife is often caught in these chance colloquies, and the bent given that shapes a career.

He was placed there when about fourteen years old, and appears to have been educated to his own satisfaction in afterlife.

Before that 'gold net thrown over all,' all the mistakes of his afterlife seem to me to grow almost insignificant.

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