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Webster 1913 Edition
Posterity
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 AbrahamIf [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.
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.
Definition 2024
posterity
posterity
English
Noun
posterity (usually uncountable, plural posterities)
- All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
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Related terms
- See post-
Translations
all the future generations
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