"afterevent" meaning in English

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          "text": "What I have promised to my wife, is a Law to me, prudence and after-events not controuling.",
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          "ref": "1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 107:",
          "text": "It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.",
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          "text": "Looking back now we all seem, with the wisdom of the after-event, to discern a kind of hush rather resembling the sort of tired selfishness that comes among a group of children towards the end of a picnic when they have eaten too much, played too much, and have become, because of submissive nurses and indulgent relations, too certain of their own importance.",
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          "text": "Two kinds of afterevent have been discerned: one is associated with a deterioration of the cavity and with the development of a chimney, the other is caused by release of tectonic strain energy.",
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