Definitions
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- verb To think about after the fact,
reflect on - verb To
repent , or feelremorse for;regret
Etymologies
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From after- + think.
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Examples
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"Never fear," said her husband; "there, sit you down and mend your stockings, and the less you heed us the less you'll have to afterthink."
Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson
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‘aftercomer’ for descendant; ‘greatdoingly’ for magnificently; ‘to afterthink’ (still in use in Lancashire) for to repent; ‘medeful’, which has given way to meritorious; ‘untellable’ for ineffable; ‘dearworth’ for precious; Chaucer has ‘forword’ for promise; Sir John Cheke
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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