after-life

See also: afterlife

English

Noun

after-life (plural after-lives)

1. Alternative spelling of afterlife.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Old Piano”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 536:

     After-life proved the truth of this melancholy prophecy: and Mrs Clapp revenged herself for the deterioration of mankind by levying the most savage contributions upon the tea-caddies and legs of mutton of her locataires.

   • 1887 October, W[illiam] T[orrey] Harris, “The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s ‘Divina Commedia’”, in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, volume XXI, number IV, St. Louis, Mo.: G. Knapp and Co., printers; New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, →JSTOR, →OCLC, § 40 (The Sun Myth; its Significance as Physical Description of Mind), page 427:

     But the most highly gifted of all peoples in poetic insight were the Greeks. They possessed supreme ability in the interpretation of nature as expression of spirit. They have countless mythoses to express the immortality of man and his after-life.