aftergrowth

[ af-ter-grohth, ahf- ]

noun

1. a second growth, as of crops or timber, after one harvesting, cutting, etc.; second crop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aftergrowth¹

First recorded in 1810–20; after + growth

Example Sentences

Nationalism was an aftergrowth proceeding from the habit into which the people fell of finding their common centre of gravity at Washington City, and of viewing it as the place where the American name and fame were embodied and emblazoned to the world.

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Of the Intellect of Women.—The intellectual strength of a woman is best proved by the fact that she offers her own intellect as a sacrifice out of love for a man and his intellect, and that nevertheless in the new domain, which was previously foreign to her nature, a second intellect at once arises as an aftergrowth, to which the man's mind impels her.

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Vanity as an Anti-Social Aftergrowth.—As men, for the sake of security, have made themselves equal in order to found communities, but as also this conception is imposed by a sort of constraint and is entirely opposed to the instincts of the individual, so, the more universal security is guaranteed, the more do new offshoots of the old instinct for predominance appear.

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This increase in the bacteria is technically known as “aftergrowth” and will be discussed more fully in Chapter IV.

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At Denver, where the aftergrowth trouble is possibly more acute than at any other city on the continent, it was effectively banished by the use of chloramine.

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