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ˈafter-years, n. pl.
[after- 9.]
The years that come, came, or will come after; the later years (of a man's life, etc.). Rarely sing., a later year.
1814Wordsworth Excursion viii. p. 378 Sottish vice..To which in after years he may be rouzed. 1837Lockhart Scott I. 341 Had the subject been taken up in after years, we might have had another Marmion. 1858W. T. Matson Poems 459 Love..sagely musing o'er Fate's riddle-book, The secret coins of many an after-year. 1869Tennyson Coming of Arthur 157 In one great annal-book, where after-years Will learn the secret of our Arthur's birth. 1902Gairdner Eng. Ch. 16th C. iv. 45 In spite of all the frightful demoralization of his after years he retained both characters to the very end. |