hereafter

Etymology

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”); equivalent to here + after.

adv

  1. (dated) In time to come; in some future time or state.
    She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word. c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth
    […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […] 1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer
  2. From now on.
  3. Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)

noun

  1. A future existence or state.
  2. Existence after death.
    'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man. 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1

adj

  1. (archaic) Future.

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