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Definition of Hereafter

1. Adverb. In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.. "The terms specified hereunder"

2. Noun. Life after death.

3. Adverb. In a future life or state. "Hope to win salvation hereafter"

4. Noun. The time yet to come.

5. Adverb. Following this in time or order or place; after this. "Hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance"

Definition of Hereafter

1. adv. In time to come; in some future time or state.

2. n. A future existence or state.

Definition of Hereafter

1. Adverb. In time to come; in some future time or state. ¹

2. Adverb. From now on ¹

3. Noun. A future existence or state. ¹

4. Noun. Existence after death. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hereafter

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereafter

here(p) here and now here and there here be dragons here be monsters here below here goes nothing here lies here to stay here we go

here we go again here you are here you go hereabout hereabouts hereafter (current term) hereafters hereafterward hereat hereaway

hereaways herebefore hereby heredes herediatry spinal ataxia hereditabilities hereditability hereditable hereditably hereditament

Literary usage of Hereafter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"God must be Judge, who knoweth the Bo- Yere, and shall do every Y ere hereafter. ... And shall be don hereafter. Now I pray yuu, ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"But he hath offer'd much, immediate much, 650 And more hereafter ; and hath sent us here The noblest of the chieftains through the host Selected, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... named by him, " and other charitable purposes as I do intend to name hereafter, after all my worldly property is disposed of to the best advantage. ..."

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