Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The people of succeeding generations; future ages.
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Examples
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Now I have a souvenir to bring to the after-world and boast about to my husband and my mother there.
John Lundberg: 99-Year-Old Poet Is Japan's New Star John Lundberg 2011
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Gill Scott, the Great North Museum's Egyptology expert, explained to me that both acts "mean that nobody can say her name and revive her spirit in the after-world", and both acts must have been done by somebody closely involved in the mummification process.
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London 2011
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Now I have a souvenir to bring to the after-world and boast about to my husband and my mother there.
John Lundberg: 99-Year-Old Poet Is Japan's New Star John Lundberg 2011
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If all life were extinguished on Earth, possibly as a result of climate change caused by humans, would they look down from the after-world, alone, on the wasteland they had left beneath?
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Too many lives depend on our growing up and facing the world as it is, not reverting to some silly fantasy after-world.
Derek Beres: A Thoroughly American Response to BP's Oil Event 2010
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Too many lives depend on our growing up and facing the world as it is, not reverting to some silly fantasy after-world.
Derek Beres: A Thoroughly American Response to BP's Oil Event Derek Beres 2010
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A psychopomp is actually a "conductor of souls" - gods who lead human souls through the after-world.
Ceraunos and Cernunnos Jan 2009
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The dog-head earrings provide a possible clue; maybe she was a priestess of the Great Goddess in her aspect of Hecate, whose totemic companions were dogs guardians of the gates to the after-world and, in some religions, accompanied the souls of the deceased into the after-world.
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The dog-head earrings provide a possible clue; maybe she was a priestess of the Great Goddess in her aspect of Hecate, whose totemic companions were dogs guardians of the gates to the after-world and, in some religions, accompanied the souls of the deceased into the after-world.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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The ritual significance of water to Celtic peoples is well documented, pools, springs, and rivers being regarded as entrances to and from the after-world.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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