whenceafter
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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hwĕnsäfʹtər, hwĕnsăfʹtər; IPA(key): /ʍɛnsˈɑːftə/, /ʍɛnsˈæftə/
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[edit]whenceafter (not comparable)
- (rare) After which; whereafter.
- 1918–1925, Booth Tarkington [aut.] and Alan Seymour Downer [ed.], On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers (1959), page 16
- Its light came from thirty feet to the left of it, and the moon itself rose audibly until a stagehand juggled it, whenceafter it ceased to rise.
- 1919, Holden Edward Sampson, Theou Sophia II: “Re-Generation” (2003 reprint), page 16
- In the case of each [Master] his Mission was revealed to him at a certain period of his life-career, whenceafter he set himself apart from the world…in order to fulfil his Mission, free from worldly ties and entanglements.
- 1918–1925, Booth Tarkington [aut.] and Alan Seymour Downer [ed.], On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers (1959), page 16