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Webster 1913 Edition

Posterity

Pos-ter′i-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
posteritas
: cf. F.
postérité
. See
Posterior
.]
1.
The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; – contrasted with ancestry;
as, the
posterity
of Abraham
.
If [the crown] should not stand in thy
posterity
.
Shakespeare
2.
Succeeding generations; future times.
Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to
posterity
.
Shakespeare
Their names shall be transmitted to
posterity
.
Smalridge.

Webster 1828 Edition

Posterity

POSTER'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. posteritas, from posterus, from post, after.]
1.
Descendants; children, children's children, &c. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam.
2.
In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors.
To the unhappy that unjustly bleed,
Heav'n gives posterity t' avenge the deed.

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