after-conduct

noun

Subsequent behavior.

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Meanings

nounafter-conduct (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSubsequent behavior.

    This is further borne out by his after-conduct. (Exodus 18)

    2013, Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament
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    But even, for the sake of argument, allowing the disputant his point, that William did really but affect the belief of Russell's fidelity, what shall be said of his after-conduct ?

    1833, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell

    She went to live as housekeeper with a lady, the widow of a respectable tradesman in Portsmouth; before long the son, a man worthy of her, as his after-conduct proved, fell in love with her.

    1869, Mary Botham Howitt, Love and Money: An Every-day Tale, page 41

Origin

From after- + conduct.

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