At some point in the future; after a while; eventually or subsequently.
Middle English compound of 'after' and 'while' (from Old English 'hwil,' a period of time). More common in archaic or dialectal English.
This beautiful old word combines 'after' and 'while' to mean a future moment that's comfortably distant but inevitable—it's the linguistic ancestor of our modern 'eventually' or 'sooner or later'!
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