aftercourse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And if she should, which Heaven forbid, O’rethrow me, as the Fidler did, What after-course have I to take, ’Gainst losing all I have at Stake?"
- "[…] they beheld that young man in those auspicious days, setting out in the paths of glory, with an ardour that promised the happiest progress in his after course!"
- "In a few cases I have been fortunate enough to give a vaccine within 24 hours of the initial rigor […]. In these cases there has been an immediate response, and the aftercourse of the disease was profoundly modified."
- "I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was that small act, trivial in itself, that striking of that match, that determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives."
- "Soldiers are sad after victory. I don’t know why. A melancholy seems to descend in the aftercourse of success."
- "Yet durst I sweare he neuer dranke Tabacco, That smoake at those times was not in request, But for this doting age reseru’d in store: Now ’tis an after-course at euery feast, To some it may doe good, but hurt to more."
Etymology
From after- + course.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: after