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
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
Fraternal initiations and their equivalents in the aftertime.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
The seventeenth century has possession of that "morn" caught once upon its uplands; nor can any custom of aftertime touch its freshness to wither it.
From Flower of the Mind by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
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