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Hereafter

adverb

In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.. Synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder. "The terms specified hereunder"

In a future life or state.

Following this in time or order or place; after this.

noun

Life after death. Synonym: afterlife.

The time yet to come. Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come.

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"Hereafter" Quotes from Famous Books

... two crowns on his own head Bonaparte thought it would promote the interests of his policy to place one on the head of a prince, and even a prince of the House of Bourbon. He wished to accustom the French to the sight of a king. It will hereafter be seen that he gave sceptres, like his confidence, conditionally, and that he was always ready to undo his own work when it became an ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... person emerge as it were out of the clay, like a second Eve; but he makes a mental reservation that it would be better if English and American sculptors would make a freer use of their chisels—of which more hereafter. Story was a light-hearted, discursive person, with a large amount of bric-a-brac information, who could appreciate Hawthorne either as a genius or as a celebrity. He soon became Hawthorne's chief companion and social mainstay in Rome, literally ...

— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns

... one after all—in exchange for the best quotations from sources hard of access which Mr. Lea must have hoarded in the course of labours such as no man ever achieved before him, or will ever attempt hereafter. It would increase the usefulness of his volumes, and double their authority. There are indeed fifty pages of documentary matter not entirely new or very closely connected with the text. Portions of this, besides, are derived from manuscripts explored in France ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... Gorboduc hereafter: the two contributions to The Mirror for Magistrates concern us here. And I have little hesitation in saying that no more astonishing contribution to English poetry, when the due reservations of that historical criticism which is the life of all criticism are made, is to be found anywhere. ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... only vice which is practicable at all times and in every place"; "no place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"; "I have always thought it the duty of an anonymous author to write as if he expected to be hereafter known"; or, last of all, to bring citation to an end, that characteristic saying about the omnipresence of the temptations of idleness: "to do nothing is in every man's power: we can never want ...

— Dr. Johnson and His Circle • John Bailey

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