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there⋅af⋅ter

  [thair-af-ter, -ahf-]
Use thereafter in a Sentence
–adverb
1. after that in time or sequence; afterward: Thereafter they did not speak.
2. Obsolete. accordingly.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME ther after, OE thǣr æfter. See there, after

Synonyms:
1. later, subsequently, thenceforth.
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there·af·ter   (thâr-āf'tər)   
adv.  From a specified time onward; from then on.
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Thereafter

There*af"ter\, adv. [AS. [eth][=ae]r[ae]fter after that. See There, and After.]

1. After that; afterward.

2. According to that; accordingly.

I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. --Milton.

3. Of that sort. [Obs.] "My audience is not thereafter." --Latimer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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thereafter 
O.E. þær æfter; see there + after. Cf. Du. daarachter, Swed. derefter.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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