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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hereafter
I.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I have a feeling that life for me in Japan hereafter will be quite different.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He should have died hereafter ....
▪ No attempt has been made in these pages to measure the achievement of those 28 ministers whose names are recorded hereafter.
▪ Of what may come hereafter For men who sow to reap.
▪ The custom will in fact be followed generally hereafter, with subjects other than that of conditionals.
▪ These are referred to hereafter as Display Pages.
▪ This court is in no way prejudging any defence of justification which may hereafter be raised in those libel proceedings.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brayne also held idiosyncratic views on the hereafter.
▪ He found fearlessness an extremely difficult state to conceive, like the hereafter.
▪ It was not an appealing view of the hereafter.
▪ Suffering is part of our preparation for the hereafter.
▪ The living were aware that death would come and claim them and aware of the power of the dead in the hereafter.
▪ There had always been tension between fear of the process of dying and hope of a happy hereafter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hereafter

Hereafter \Here*aft"er\, adv. [AS. h[=e]r[ae]fter.] In time to come; in some future time or state.

Hereafter he from war shall come.
--Dryden.

Hereafter

Hereafter \Here*aft"er\, n. A future existence or state.

'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hereafter

Old English heræfter (adv.) "in the future; later on;" see here + after. Meaning "after death" is mid-14c. As a noun, "time in the future," from 1540s. Meaning "a future world, the world to come" is from 1702.

Wiktionary
hereafter

adv. 1 In time to come; in some future time or state. 2 from now on n. 1 A future existence or state. 2 Existence after death.

WordNet
hereafter
  1. n. life after death [syn: afterlife]

  2. the time yet to come [syn: future, futurity, time to come] [ant: past]

  3. adv. in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.; "the landlord demises unto the tenant the premises hereinafter called the demised premises"; "the terms specified hereunder" [syn: hereinafter, hereunder]

  4. in a future life or state; "hope to win salvation hereafter"

  5. following this in time or order or place; after this; "hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance"

Wikipedia
Hereafter (album)

Hereafter is the third album from the Romanian power metal band Magica. It was released in 2007. There is a video for the songs "All Waters Have the Colour of Drowning" and "Entangled".

Hereafter (disambiguation)

The term hereafter or afterlife as described in one or more religions involves the continuation of something after physical death of the body. That continuation is believed to be of something variously referred to as the "soul", or the "spirit", or the mind.

Hereafter may also refer to:

  • Hereafter (album), a 2007 power metal album
  • Hereafter (film), a 2010 film by Clint Eastwood
  • "Hereafter", an episode of Justice League
Hereafter (film)

Hereafter is a 2010 American drama directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, written by Peter Morgan and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar waysall three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays American factory worker George, who is able to communicate with the dead and who has worked professionally as a clairvoyant, but no longer wants to communicate with the dead; Cécile de France plays French television journalist Marie, who survives a near-death experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and British twins Marcus and Jason (played by Frankie and George McLaren). Bryce Dallas Howard, Lyndsey Marshal, Jay Mohr, and Thierry Neuvic have supporting roles.

Morgan sold the script on spec to DreamWorks in 2008, but it transferred to Warner Bros. by the time Eastwood (who has a long-standing relationship with Warner Bros.) had signed on to direct in 2009. Principal photography ran from October 2009 to February 2010 on locations in London, San Francisco, Paris, and Hawaii.

Hereafter premiered as a "Special Presentation" at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. The film was given a limited release on October 15, 2010 and was released across North America on October 22, 2010. Although a box office success, the film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the plot and acting performances, while noting that the movie suffered from a lack of focus on the story.

Hereafter (NCIS)

"Hereafter" is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 225th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on February 19, 2013. The episode is written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Tony Wharmby, and was seen by 21.08 million viewers.

In the episode, a marine is found dead at a Navy Base. Soon it's discovered he was involved on an illegal fight club.

Usage examples of "hereafter".

I never saw the Alabamian again, though I heard from him once, as will appear hereafter.

That fifty years hence, these scourges of humanity will be curable by the administration of any remedy, to be hereafter discovered by experimentation on animals,--in the Rockefeller Institute, for instance,--I have not the slightest faith.

Canada Lady Cartier and my daughters have asked me not to forget to present to you and Lady Watkin their best wishes and kindest regards, to remember them kindly to your son, and to offer their compliments to Miss Watkin, in the hope of making her acquaintance hereafter.

Should it ever be known hereafter, at a time when he stood before the people as a candidate for some high political trust, that he had tamely submitted to the infliction of a cowskin, the revelation would be fatal to all his hopes of ambition, and conclusive against all his social pretensions.

That Denbigh could forget Emily so soon, he would not believe, and he greatly feared he had been driven into a step, from despair, that he might hereafter repent of.

We shall hereafter see that solutions of these substances, when placed on the discs of leaves, do not incite inflection.

Queen Elizabeth, complaining of the name for an unlucky one, had re-christened her The Dainty, not without some by-quip, perhaps, at the character of her most dainty captain, Richard Hawkins, the complete seaman and Euphuist afloat, of whom, perhaps, more hereafter.

We shall hereafter meet with the same kind of movement in the joints of certain Gramineae, and it is probably common to many plants while circumnutating.

And Sir John, when he had riped the turret weel, led my gudesire into the dining-parlour, and took him by the hand, and spoke kindly to him, and said he was sorry he should have doubted his word, and that he would hereafter be a good master to him, to make amends.

These fragments are quickly reknit into the body of ice, which we shall hereafter term the glacier, and in this process the expulsion of the air goes on more rapidly than before, and the mass assumes a more transparent icelike quality.

In his intercourse with the Latins, Alexius was patient and artful: his discerning eye pervaded the new system of an unknown world and I shall hereafter describe the superior policy with which he balanced the interests and passions of the champions of the first crusade.

Mage Guardians would hereafter pop through Ladders with bound stacks of broadsheets on a regular basis.

One example of the shameless subterfuges under which the French stand prepared to defend whatever cruelties they may hereafter think fit to commit in bringing the Marquesan natives into subjection is well worthy of being recorded.

Fourth, said special commissioners shall also investigate and report upon any other matters that may hereafter be directed by the Secretary of War, and shall with all convenient dispatch make report to him in writing of their investigation, and shall also from time to time make special reports to the Secretary of War upon such matters as they may deem of importance to the public interests.

It is best for him to know, that, in order to be a happy man, he must always be a laborer, with the mind or the body, or with both: and that the reasonable exertion of his powers, bodily and mental, is not to be regarded as mere drudgery, but as a good discipline, a wise ordination, a training in this primary school of our being, for nobler endeavors, and spheres of higher activity hereafter.