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afterworld

noun

Etymology

From after + world.

  1. inherited from *weraldiz✻ — “lifetime, human existence, world”
  2. inherited from *weraldi✻
  3. inherited from weorold — “world”
  4. inherited from world
  5. compounded as afterworld — “after + world”

Definitions

  1. A supposed world that is entered after death

    A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife.

    • […] your bookes shall be out worne in your age I warrant you. Onelie if some surviue by the mercy of a friends Library, the after-world shall rather pittie your lost time, then commende your diligence.
    • […] a person […] to whom, be who he may, I return my thanks in this public manner; hoping he will meet with a reward in some future day, or after world if he does not in this.
    • I’m finished now, but the last word on my life rests with you. If you turn out well, I can still claim some kind of success in the afterworld, if there is one.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afterworld. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA