"afterwit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1595, Robert Southwell, “Losse in Delayes”, in Saint Peters Complaynt With Other Poems, London: Gabriel Cawood, page 50",
          "text": "After wits are dearely bought, / Let thy fore-wit guide thy thought.",
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          "text": "1692, Roger L’Estrange (translator), Fables of Æsop, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 162, “A Nightingale and a Bat,”\nThere’s No Recalling of what’s Gone and Past; so that After-Wit comes too Late when the Mischief is Done."
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          "text": "Trust me, dear Yorick, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later bring thee into scrapes and difficulties, which no after-wit can extricate thee out of.",
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        "Wisdom which comes after the event."
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        "The lack of forethought."
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        "A good comeback, retort one thinks of only after the end of discussion or after leaving a social gathering."
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          "word": "l'esprit de l'escalier"
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          "word": "staircase wit"
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