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afterages

afterages is the plural of afterage.

Meaning of afterage

Noun

afterage (plural afterages)

  1. An age occurring afterwards; a later era.
    • And I deny also, that the teaching authority of the successors so called of the apostles was designed to be the only rule of faith in afterages.1830, James Austin Mason, The Triumph of Truth, in the Conversion of the Rev. J. A. Mason, from the Errors of Methodism to the Catholic Faith, page 18

Questions about afterages

What is afterages the plural of?
Afterages is the plural of afterage.

Words near afterages in the dictionary

  1. afteract
  2. afteracts
  3. afterafterparties
  4. afterafterparty
  5. afterage
  6. afterages
  7. afterall
  8. afterattack
  9. afterattacks
  10. afterbath
  11. afterbaths

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