afterage

English

Etymology

after- +‎ age

Noun

afterage (plural afterages)

  1. An age occurring afterwards; a later era.
    • 1830, James Austin Mason, The Triumph of Truth, in the Conversion of the Rev. J. A. Mason, from the Errors of Methodism to the Catholic Faith, page 18:
      And I deny also, that the teaching authority of the successors so called of the apostles was designed to be the only rule of faith in afterages.
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