après coupadv.
As an afterthought; after the event.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later > after the event or after the fact
upon the postfact1631
ex post facto1632
post factum1649
post facto1650
post hoc1844
post eventum1846
après coup1871
post festum1887
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 27 Feb. (1955) V. 136 These letters, which must speak better for him than the finest eloquence après coup.
1887 Athenæum 18 June 796/3 The name has probably been affixed to the book après coup, so to speak, and to allure the unwary reader.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 630 Our abstract and general discoveries usually come to us as lucky fancies; and it is only après coup that we find that they correspond to some reality.
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adv.1871- frenchinspired
- frenchism
- frenchize
- frenchless
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- frenchman
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- french–english
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