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Womb vs Aftercoming - What's the difference?

womb | aftercoming |

As nouns the difference between womb and aftercoming

is that womb is (anatomy) in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus while aftercoming is a following state, sequel, consequence, or result; an aftercome.

As a verb womb

is (obsolete) to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

As an adjective aftercoming is

succeeding, following.

womb

English

(uterus)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
  • (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
  • *:
  • *:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
  • (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
  • *1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
  • *:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
  • (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
  • *Dryden
  • *:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
  • Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
  • *Robert Browning
  • *:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .

    • Synonyms

    * (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
    • (Shakespeare)

    aftercoming

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A following state, sequel, consequence, or result; an aftercome.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Succeeding, following.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:They establish (saith he) by the reason of their judgement, that whatsoever is reported of hell, or of after-comming paines, is but a fiction.
  • *1718 , John H Thompson, A Cloud of Witnesses :
    • I set them down here, that their names may be a stink and ill-savour to aftercoming generations, as apostate from the way of God.
  • (obstetrics) Specifically, of a baby's head: following the rest of the body out of the womb, rather than (as is usual) preceding it.
  • *2003 , Pitkin, Peattie & Macgowan, Obstetrics and Gynaecology , p.41:
  • *:The most important aspect of an assisted vaginal breech delivery is careful delivery of the aftercoming head.