Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

after-reward

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.32 in modern English

Syllables: af-ter-re-ward
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A reward that follows or which comes after

Example Sentences

"The Christian acted distinctly for a selfish end — “pro remedio minus,” the heathen may often have acted (as M. Allard unfairly assumes that he always did) from vanity or caprice, but he surely sometimes acted from a sense of right without hope of afterreward."
"After 18 months' industrial training, with daily secular and religious instruction, inmates are sent to service, with an adequate outfit, and obtain certain after rewards and gratuities, if deserved, by good conduct in their situations."
"It is as if he said: the glory is not an external afterreward of the shame; the glory is in the shame; the life in the death."
"This system works at any drugstore chain. Each offers different free or cheap after-rewards items every week, so keep rolling your rewards to pick up different HBA (health-and-beauty aisle) items all the time."
"What is the after-reward for taking pains in the act of seeing?"

Etymology

From Middle English after-reward, equivalent to after- + reward.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: after-reward

Inflected Forms

after-rewards (plural) afterreward (alternative) after reward (alternative)

Questions

What does after-reward mean?: A reward that follows or which comes after
Where does after-reward come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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