whenceafter

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From whence +‎ after.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adverb

[edit]

whenceafter (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    • 1938, Norman St. Barbe Sladen, The Real Le Queux, page 77:
      The spy followed Le Queux again the next day in the streets of Bucharest and Le Queux complained to the police, whenceafter the spy was not seen again.
[edit]