hereafter
adverb
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Pronunciation: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/ / /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
adj
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
- Future.
adv
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
- From now on.
- Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
- In time to come; in some future time or state.
“She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.”
“[…] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]”
noun
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
- A future existence or state.
- Existence after death.
“'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.”