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"word": "pearly gates"
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"text": "Many religious people believe in an afterlife.",
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"ref": "1614, Thomas Adams, “The Sinners Passing-Bell”, in The Devills Banket, London: Ralph Mab, page 219",
"text": "Read in euery Starre, and let the Moone be your Candle to doe it, the prouident disposition of God, the eternitie of your after-life.",
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"text": "1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame, London: Bernard Lintott, Note to p. 16, ver. 5,\nThose heroick Barbarians accounted it a Dishonour to die in their Beds, and rush’d on to certain Death in the Prospect of an After-Life […]"
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"text": "1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Watcher by the Dead” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 175,\nI, who have not a shade of superstition in my nature—I, who have no belief in immortality—I, who know […] that the after-life is the dream of a desire"
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"ref": "2005, Tash Aw, chapter 6, in The Harmony Silk Factory, New York: Riverhead Books, page 67",
"text": "Each person took this paper money and dropped it into a huge tin drum which held within it a fierce fire, a bonfire of heavenly money for Tiger’s afterlife.",
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"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "wara l-ħajja"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "wara l-mewt"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "anamata"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "zaświaty"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "życie pozagrobowe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vida após a morte"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "além"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "além-túmulo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultravida"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "outro mundo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "submundo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "viața de dincolo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "viața de apoi"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "viața de după moarte"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lumea cealaltă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lumea de apoi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zagróbnaja žiznʹ",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "загро́бная жизнь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zagróbnyj mir",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "загро́бный мир"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "potustorónnij mir",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "потусторо́нний мир"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žiznʹ posle smérti",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "жизнь после сме́рти"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultratumba"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "más allá"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inframundo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "otro mundo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "orco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ultravida"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "submundo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "lo de allá"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "ahera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "livet efter detta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "livet efter döden"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "efterliv"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "kabilang daigdig"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "kabilang buhay"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "ahiret"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "öbür dünya"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "öteki dünya"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "diğer taraf"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "potojbíččja",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "потойбі́ччя"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "kiếp sau"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"word": "thế giới bên kia"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "y byd a ddaw"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "y byd arall"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a conscious existence after death",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "y byd nesaf"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"afterlife"
],
"word": "afterlife"
}
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