Meaning of after-event | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life.”

“What I have promised to my wife, is a Law to me, prudence and after-events not controuling.”

“Adeline thought little about it at the time; but often—oh! how often—did her memory dwell upon those accents, and recal that beloved voice, when after-events came thickening like briers in her path of life.”

“Looking back now we all seem, with the wisdom of the after-event, to discern a kind of hush rather resembling the sort of tired selfishness that comes among a group of children towards the end of a picnic when they have eaten too much, played too much, and have become, because of submissive nurses and indulgent relations, too certain of their own importance.”

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