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After that, from then on; thenceforth. quotations examples
The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.
1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land
"My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
countable and uncountable, plural thereafters
(uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“future existence or state”). examples
(poetic, uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“existence after death”). quotations examples
A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.
2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, page 243