postbellum

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From Latin post bellum (literally after the war).

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postbellum (not comparable)

  1. Of the period following a war.
    • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Sauli Niinistö, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö.
    1. (US) Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
      • 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
        Midway through Donald McCaig’s unexpectedly diverting novel, “Rhett Butler’s People,” a black man about to be lynched in the post-bellum South asks Rhett to please shoot him dead before the mob breaks into the jail and does worse.

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