Hereafter definition

hîr-ăftər
The afterlife.

Belief in a hereafter.

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The state or life after death.
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The future.
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In time to come; in some future time or state.
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From now on.
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A future existence or state.
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Existence after death.
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Immediately following this in time, order, or place; after this.
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In a future time or state.

Hope to win salvation hereafter.

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After this; from now on; in the future.
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Following this.
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In the state or life after death.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
hereafter
Plural:
hereafters

Origin of hereafter

  • Old English hræfter.

    From Wiktionary

Hereafter Sentence Examples

  • The manner in which such by-laws are made and confirmed will be hereafter noticed.

  • They could adopt various acts, which will be parish more particularly referred to hereafter, and they could council.

  • This and like matters will, however, be more fitly considered in dealing hereafter with the buds and their treatment.

  • The figurative nature of the language respecting the future makes it difficult to determine precisely the thought of the book on this point; but it seems to contemplate continued existence hereafter for both righteous and wicked, and rewards and punishments allotted on the basis of moral character.

  • The whipping-post was in 1908 still maintained in Delaware, and whipping continued to be prescribed as a punishment for a variety of offences, although in 1889 a law was passed which prescribed that " hereafter no female convicted of any crime in this state shall be whipped or made to stand in the pillory," and a law passed in 1883 prescribed that " in case of conviction of larceny, when the prisoner is of tender years, or is charged for the first time (being shown to have before had a good character), the court may in its discretion omit from the sentence the infliction of lashes."

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