Definition of Posterities

1. posterity [n] - See also: posterity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Posterities

posterior synechia
posterior temporal artery
posterior vein of the left ventricle
posteriorities
posteriority
posteriorization
posteriorizing
posteriorly
posteriors
posteriour
posteriourly
posterise
posterised
posterises
posterising
posterities (current term)
posterity
posterization
posterizations
posterize
posterized
posterizes
posterizing
posterlike
postern
posterns
postero-lateral
posterodorsal
posterodorsally
posterolateral

Literary usage of Posterities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections of the Virginia Historical Society by Virginia Historical Society (1888)
"... and to have the memory and fame of many of her worthies, though they be dead, to live and be transmitted to all posterities, as namely, Sir Thomas Dale, ..."

2. An explanation of the Psalms, as read in the liturgy of the Church by James Slade (1847)
"posterities ?—Unadvisedly ?— Explain ver. 36.—Were stained .'—Adversity ?—When was this Psalm composed ?—And what may we learn from it ? ..."

3. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (1908)
"submit ourselves, our heirs, and posterities, to William and Mary, their heirs and ... to William and Mary, their heirs and posterities, to the end of time. ..."

4. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1891)
"... by extinct, Of the aforesaid lines, Then it shall descent to lines & posterities, Orriginally lawfully begotten from the Body of my Second Sonn Casparus ..."

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