afterwave

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ wave.

Noun

afterwave (plural afterwaves)

1. A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something.
   • 1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,^[1]

     From the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:

   • 1866 April 28, Saturday Review‎^[2], volume 21, number 548, page 490:

     Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.

   • 1918, James Sully, chapter 5, in My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories‎^[3], London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 120:

     [I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.

   • 1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, chapter 6, in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born‎^[4], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 84:

     Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.

   • 2003, Norman Rush, chapter 37, in Mortals‎^[5], New York: Knopf, pages 705–706:

     He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.