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HEREAFTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time yet to come
Synonyms:
future; futurity; hereafter; time to come
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hereafter" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hereafter"):
kingdom come (the end of time)
by-and-by (an indefinite time in the future)
offing (the near or foreseeable future)
tomorrow (the near future)
manana (an indefinite time in the future)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Life after death
Synonyms:
afterlife; hereafter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hereafter" is a kind of...):
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hereafter"):
kingdom come (the next world)
immortality (perpetual life after death)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Following this in time or order or place; after this
Example:
hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a future life or state
Example:
hope to win salvation hereafter
Classified under:
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.
Example:
the terms specified hereunder
Synonyms:
hereafter; hereinafter; hereunder
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
He cannot be the instigator of the three villains in horsemen's greatcoats, by whom she will hereafter be forced into a traveling-chaise and four, which will drive off with incredible speed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species, your names adored as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
To no creature had it been revealed, where secrecy was possible, except to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley's connections her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from the very wish which Elizabeth had long ago attributed to him, of their becoming hereafter her own.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She would not acknowledge that it was with any view of making a match for her, hereafter, with either of Isabella's sons; but she was convinced that a daughter would suit both father and mother best.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Do not tell me anything now, which hereafter you may be sorry for.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If you leave her, and harm befall, you shall not sleep easy hereafter!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“But I’ll stand my watch on board hereafter,” I blurted out a moment later.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"I can keep you in reasonable check now," I reflected; "and I don't doubt to be able to do it hereafter: if one expedient loses its virtue, another must be devised."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"I flatter myself," replied Elinor, "that even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase, you will hereafter find your own house as faultless as you now do this."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Her intimacy there had made him seriously determine on her being handsomely legacied hereafter; and to speak of her therefore as the almost acknowledged future heiress of Fullerton naturally followed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
