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English
Etymology
From after- + wave.
Noun
afterwave (plural afterwaves)
- A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something.
- 1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,
- From the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:
1866 April 28, Saturday Review, volume 21, number 548, page 490:Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.
1918, James Sully, chapter 5, in My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 120:[I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.
1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, chapter 6, in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 84:Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.
2003, Norman Rush, chapter 37, in Mortals, New York: Knopf, pages 705–706:He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.