aftergrowth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aftergrowth
Example Sentences
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It dawned on him gradually that she was a woman of rich experience, and that her tranquillity was an aftergrowth, a development—"That was in my discontented days," she said once.
From Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson
Moses they revered, and his law; but the aftergrowth, priestly and prophetic, they discarded.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Swiftly he descended the ridge and, gliding silently into the aftergrowth of spindling saplings that reared their sickly heads among the stumps, gained the rear of the shack.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
It was important to distinguish the feeble and obscure elements from the powerful and brilliant aftergrowth; which indeed was fully realized only in chosen minds, and in them, hardly before old age.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
Vabres was a bishopric which came into being as an aftergrowth of a Benedictine foundation of the ninth century, though its episcopal functions only began in 1318, and ceased with the Revolutionary suppression.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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