whenceafter

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English

Etymology

From whence +‎ after.

Pronunciation

Adverb

whenceafter (not comparable)

  1. (rare) After which; whereafter.
    • 1918–1925, Booth Tarkington and Alan Seymour Downer , On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers (1959), page 16
      Its light came from thirty feet to the left of it, and the moon itself rose audibly until a stagehand juggled it, whenceafter it ceased to rise.
    • 1919, Holden Edward Sampson, Theou Sophia II: “Re-Generation” (2003 reprint), page 16
      In the case of each his Mission was revealed to him at a certain period of his life-career, whenceafter he set himself apart from the world…in order to fulfil his Mission, free from worldly ties and entanglements.
    • 1938, Norman St. Barbe Sladen, The Real Le Queux, page 77:
      The spy followed Le Queux again the next day in the streets of Bucharest and Le Queux complained to the police, whenceafter the spy was not seen again.