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Last Things

plural noun

  1. the subjects of eschatology: the second coming of Christ, the end of history, and the final destiny of the individual and humankind as a whole.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Last Things1

First recorded in 1470–80

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Example Sentences

The answer would be one of the last things the jury heard from Andrew Young.

“With adolescent brain development, one of the last things to develop is impulse control,” says Corcoran.

There are always a few last things to be said to the home-folks, a few small possessions we want to will in special ways.

As to the Crown-Prince, there is no doubt but here at last things are actually coming to a crisis with him.

To propitiate them, presents are made—the last things that can well be parted with.

But at last things began to look threatening for this weak, vacillating, insipid legislative body.

Indeed ghosts were the very last things we reckoned on, as neither of us had the slightest belief in them.

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