afterdaysとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

afterdays pl (複数形 only)

1. (archaic) Days that follow; a later time or period; (比喩的に) people in the future.
   • c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 3, p. 37,^[1]

     And him the Greeks will giue, a master praise; / Verse finding him, to last all after daies.

   • a. 1710, William Congreve, “To Sir Godfrey Kneller” in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, London: Jacob Tonson, 1710, Volume 3, p. 1001,^[2]

     But after-Days, my Friend, must do thee right, / And set thy Virtues in unenvy’d Light.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, London: T. Egerton, Volume 3, Chapter 14, p. 300,^[3]

     […] many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Chapter 28, p. 355,^[4]

     Often in peaceful after-days was Alleyne to think of that scene of the wayside inn of Auvergne.

   • 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, London: Macmillan, Volume 1, Act I, Scene 3, p. 41,^[5]

     […] this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch— / So insular, empiric, un-ideal— / May figure forth in sharp and salient lines / To retrospective eyes of afterdays,