afterwards, adv.
(ˈɑːftəwədz, æ-)
[f. prec., with adverbial genitive -es, -s. At first a northern form. See -wards.]
At a later time, subsequently. Also as n. The future; the future life, the after-life.
| c 1300 St. Brandan 10 And underne siththe and middai and afterwardes non. 1375 Barbour Bruce i. 588 Off hys etlyng rycht swa It fell, As I sall eftirwartis tell. 1601 Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 164 Like Wrath in death, and Enuy afterwards. 1611 Bible John xiii. 36 Thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 1756 Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. I. 21 The war was brought home to them, first by Agesilaus, and afterwards by Alexander. 1842 J. H. Newman Ch. of Fathers 385 In the afterwards metropolitan city of Canterbury. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by an Eyewitness (1902) 343 The little spark must keep the great cold world warm until the Afterwards. 1902 E. Glyn Refl. Ambrosine 285 An English girl would have a blank prospect in front of her for the afterwards. 1922 D. H. Lawrence England, my England (1924) 47 To..mingle and commingle with the one darkness, without afterwards or forwards. a 1930 ― Last Poems (1932) 288 About the afterwards As a matter of fact, we know nothing. |