hereafter
8
5.3
- adverb
- /ˈhɪrˌæftər/
- Formal
:
en adelante
- Hereafter, you will announce yourself with a knock, if you don't mind.
- hereafter referred
- hereafter cited
- hereafter called
Examples
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In these notes, the book is hereafter referred to as Confessions.
Academic text (2011) -
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter.
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or else hereafter forever hold his peace
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All who are born in this land hereafter can suffer as we have done.
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We shall have to stay away from the beach hereafter.
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We will hereafter strike it from our vocabulary.
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I will obey you in everything hereafter.
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Shortly hereafter, the whole issue of paternity and the law is developed more fully.
Academic text (1999) -
1920: The New York Times announces that the "N" in Negro would hereafter be capitalized.
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We will hereafter meet every Thursday for our study group.
Synonyms
204
1.1
At a later time
88
4.1
From that time on
17
4.4
Starting from now or from a given time in the future
13
6.7
From now on
8
6.8
Always from now on
1
7.5
From now on
1
8.9
From this point on in the document
1
9.3
From that time on
From this time on into the future
From that time on
Happening after something else in time
Compounds
How Soon
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hereafter is made from here and after, which mean 'after this time'. That's why in documents or rules it means 'from now on' or 'in the future'.