3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Posterity \Pos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf F.
post['e]rit['e]. 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.
--Shak.
2. Succeeding generations; future times. --Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
--Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
--Smalridge.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
posterity
n 1: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure
the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
[syn: {descendants}]
2: all future generations
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a
popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure
competitor.
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