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(dated) In time to come; in some future time or state. quotations examples
She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.
c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth
[…] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]
1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer
From now on. examples
Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.) examples
countable and uncountable, plural hereafters
(uncommon) A future existence or state. examples
(poetic, uncommon) Existence after death. quotations examples
'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.
1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1
(archaic) Future.