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English
Noun
afterdays pl (plural only)
- (archaic) Days that follow; a later time or period; (figuratively) people in the future.
c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 3, p. 37:And him the Greeks will giue, a master praise; / Verse finding him, to last all after daies.
- a. 1710, William Congreve, “To Sir Godfrey Kneller” in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, London: Jacob Tonson, 1710, Volume 3, p. 1001,
- But after-Days, my Friend, must do thee right, / And set thy Virtues in unenvy’d Light.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 14, in Sense and Sensibility , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 300:[…] many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 28, in The White Company, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, page 355:Often in peaceful after-days was Alleyne to think of that scene of the wayside inn of Auvergne.
1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, London: Macmillan, Volume 1, Act I, Scene 3, p. 41:[…] this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch— / So insular, empiric, un-ideal— / May figure forth in sharp and salient lines / To retrospective eyes of afterdays,