afterevent

after- +‎ event

afterevent (plural afterevents)

1. An event that follows something; a subsequent or later event.
   • 1593, Richard Cosin, An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, London, Chapter 2, p. 22,

     Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life.

   • 1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, London, Volume 7, Letter 27, p. 130,

     What I have promised to my wife, is a Law to me, prudence and after-events not controuling.

   • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, New York: Harper, Chapter 12, p. 107,

     a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory

   • 1928, Hugh Walpole, My Religious Experience, London: Ernest Benn, Chapter 2,

     Looking back now we all seem, with the wisdom of the after-event, to discern a kind of hush rather resembling the sort of tired selfishness that comes among a group of children towards the end of a picnic when they have eaten too much, played too much, and have become, because of submissive nurses and indulgent relations, too certain of their own importance.

   • 1977, Ola Dahlman and Hans Israelson, Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Chapter 4, p. 83,

     Two kinds of afterevent have been discerned: one is associated with a deterioration of the cavity and with the development of a chimney, the other is caused by release of tectonic strain energy.