Afterevent

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An event that follows something; a subsequent or later event.

    "Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life."

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"Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life."

Etymology

From after- + event.

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