afterlife

Definition

A conscious existence after death; a supernatural life that follows one's natural life, in some worldviews.

Etymology

From after- + life.

Example Sentences

• "Many religious people believe in an afterlife."
• "Read in euery Starre, and let the Moone be your Candle to doe it, the prouident disposition of God, the eternitie of your after-life."
• "1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame, London: Bernard Lintott, Note to p. 16, ver. 5, Those heroick Barbarians accounted it a Dishonour to die in their Beds, and rush’d on to certain Death in the Prospect of an After-Life […]"

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