hereafter

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Still, I own that the hope of the hereafter is the one point in which you have the better of it.

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  1. adverb Immediately following this in time, order, or place; after this.
  2. adverb In a future time or state: hope to win salvation hereafter.
  3. noun The afterlife: belief in a hereafter.

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  1. from Middle English herafter (= Danish herefter = Swedish härefter), from Anglo-Saxon hēræfter, hereafter, from hēr, here, + æfter, after: see here and after.
  2. from hereafter, adv.
 

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