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Ulterior

adjective

Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed). Synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous. "Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"

Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote. "Without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"

Coming at a subsequent time or stage. Synonyms: later, posterior. "The mood posterior to"

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... bitterness that his star was not in the ascendant. After some reflection, Mr Vanslyperken thought that as nothing could be gained by making the fact known, the wisest thing that he could do was to go to bed and say nothing about it, leaving the whole of the ulterior proceedings until the loss of the boat should be reported to him in the morning. Having arranged this in his mind, Mr Vanslyperken took two or three turns more, and then went down and ...

— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... to be contemplated in the restoration of the United States to their primitive boundaries and united power. But it was not without deep apprehension of moral taint and ulterior evil consequences, that a wise patriot could look even then to any attempt of the old matrimonial partners to dwell again in a common household, upon the old terms, and with no real settlement of the dispute ...

— The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I • Various

... great abundance of cant, habitual or designed. It would betray a very slender knowledge of mankind, and none at all of what is called the religious world, to conclude that a man is destitute of sincere piety because he sometimes makes use of the language of religion for ulterior ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... Mind was in a Tumult. Why had he given her the Con Speech and all that Money? What was the Ulterior Motive? What had he been Doing that he should attempt to Coddle her into a Forgiving Mood? Did he Fear that she would get next to ...

— More Fables • George Ade

... since the pair had parted—a long interval at the age of twenty. All the same, one of the most notably and deservedly attractive young men of his generation was to be brought for the second time, without the compulsory strain of an ulterior motive—declared or unjustifiably implied—into new contact with a royal maiden, whom a qualified judge described as possessing "a keen and quick apprehension, being straightforward, singularly pure-hearted, ...

— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler

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