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posterity |
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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