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(archaic) Days that follow; a later time or period; (figuratively) people in the future..
a. 1710, William Congreve, “To Sir Godfrey Kneller” in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, London: Jacob Tonson, 1710, Volume 3, p. 1001, But after-Days, my Friend, must do thee right, / And set thy Virtues in unenvy’d Light.
And him the Greeks will giue, a master praise; / Verse finding him, to last all after daies.
[…] many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
Often in peaceful after-days was Alleyne to think of that scene of the wayside inn of Auvergne.
[…] this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch— / So insular, empiric, un-ideal— / May figure forth in sharp and salient lines / To retrospective eyes of afterdays,
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Afterdays means (archaic) Days that follow; a later time or period; (figuratively) people in the future..
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a. 1710, William Congreve, “To Sir Godfrey Kneller” in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, London: Jacob Tonson, 1710, Volume 3, p. 1001, But after-Days, my Friend, must do thee right, / And set thy Virtues in unenvy’d Light.
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