aftersmile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A facial expression that follows a smile.
Example Sentences
- "[…] there were funerals as the result of a holy effort (for holy effort still we avow it to have been, and the aftersmile of God hath proved it so)."
- "No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile, earth’s teardrops gain, / And mother finds her home and far-off rest."
- "Smiling with imperturbable tenderness, Mrs. Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters. Wetting his thumb with sly thin aftersmile, he told."
- "New truths were coming to her, and she at first laughed at them, laughed at what her own head was telling her […]. Her aftersmile spread into the doubt in her eyes when her head told her that she would soon be able to carry the daylight on her back."
- "It made her smile, just a little one, and that was good, but the smile got switched off pretty soon and somehow that made it worse, because there was such a contrast in her face between smile and aftersmile."
- "The smile was gone, but the face still had an aftersmile glow on it;"
Etymology
From after- + smile.