aftersign

== English == === Alternative forms === after-sign, after sign === Etymology === From after- +‎ sign. === Noun === aftersign (plural aftersigns) An indication of a prior event or condition; a lingering sign or mark; that which remains 1863, The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner - Volume 20: The rationale of this is very simple. Rheumatic inflammation is an injury to nutrition which is entirely compensated for the restored function. It passes away and leaves no aftersign, no wound, no scar. 1870, The bane of a life - Volume 3: So I parted from you as I did, and made no aftersign, thinking it was better that I should suffer — suffer even to be misjudged and forgotten by you — than that you should be asked to love to your own injury. === Anagrams === afterings