单词 | afterness |
释义 | afternessn. The fact or quality of being later or subsequent in time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > lateness or being advanced in time > being later posteriority1523 posteritya1530 afterness1587 latterness1602 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iv. 50 Time is but a measure of mouing, wherein there is both a forenesse & an afternesse [Fr. vn apres]. 1605 R. Mason Reasons Academie 24 Before such time as fore-nesse issued out, and had neede of after-nesse: Time, which as then was not, rested in God. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 14 To shut out formerness and afterness, which Gods everlastingness has not. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. I. 155/2 The relation of foreness exists in Peter; the relation of afterness exists in John. 1869 N. Porter Human Intellect (ed. 2) 550 Hence the hereness and thereness, the nowness and thenness, the beforeness and the afterness may be common to many individuals. 1922 J. A. Leighton Man & Cosmos ii. xii. 151 Beforeness, afterness, causality,..lovingness, etc.—such universals are relations which appear to have an eternally subsistent being. 1979 World Lit. Today 53 683/2 The sequence progresses from thisness, to afterness, from experience to ritual, from time to the timeless. 2011 G. Richter Afterness Introd. 2 A sustained reading of afterness has far-reaching implications for how we view the thought, aesthetic production, and ethico-political concerns of modernity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1587 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。