afterhand
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "an afterhand rent"
- "To be sure, ye ken best, " said the writer; “ hut, after a', now, wad it no be better to lay by this hundred pound in Tam Turnpenny's, in case the young lady should want it afterhand, just for a sair foot?“"
- "Deduction is knowledge beforehand ; induction is knowledge afterhand."
- "If necessary it would afterhand always be possible to integrate over larger time intervals."
- "The author forgets that the resurrection implied death as its antecedent, and that if believed in, it would have made death appear in an altogether different light, and that if it failed to do that, it would beforehand share the same fate as the death, that, viz., of being disregarded ; and afterhand would seem " too good news to be true.""
Etymology
From after + hand.