afterevent

plural afterevents · alternative after-event

1. An event that follows something; a subsequent or later event.

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

   1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 130

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   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.

   1593, Richard Cosin, chapter 2, in An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, London, page 22

   It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.

   1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 107

   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.

   1928, Hugh Walpole, chapter 2, in My Religious Experience, London: Ernest Benn

   Two kinds of afterevent have been discerned: one is associated with a deterioration of the cavity and with the development of a chimney, the other is caused by release of tectonic strain energy.

   1977, Ola Dahlman, Hans Israelson, chapter 4, in Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, page 83