afterage

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noun

An age occurring afterwards; a later era.

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Meanings

nounafterage (plural afterages)

plural afterages

  1. An age occurring afterwards; a later era.

    And I deny also, that the teaching authority of the successors so called of the apostles was designed to be the only rule of faith in afterages.

    1830, James Austin Mason, The Triumph of Truth, in the Conversion of the Rev. J. A. Mason, from the Errors of Methodism to the Catholic Faith, page 18

Origin

From after- + age.

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APA

afterage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/afterage

MLA

“afterage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/afterage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “afterage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/afterage.

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