"afterevent" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: afterevents [plural]
Etymology: From after- + event. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|after-|event}} after- + event Head templates: {{en-noun}} afterevent (plural afterevents)
  1. An event that follows something; a subsequent or later event. Synonyms: after-event
    Sense id: en-afterevent-en-noun-YfsDDjr2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with after-

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          "text": "Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life.",
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