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Definition of Posterity
1. Noun. All of the offspring of a given progenitor. "We must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
2. Noun. All future generations.
Definition of Posterity
1. n. 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.
Definition of Posterity
1. Noun. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Posterity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posterity
Literary usage of Posterity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"posterity may mean well, but it cannot be trusted. A sensitive ghost might run
an awful risk of being for ever mis- appreciated, owing to the mere ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"posterity. The appeal to posterity has been a favorite one with prophets who
imagined themselves unhonored in their own day and generation. ..."
3. Current Social and Industrial Forces by Lionel Danforth Edie (1920)
"When posterity pays off those bonds it does not pay this generation. ... It is
very clear that when posterity pays itself it is not making * Reprinted by ..."
4. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"preserve you a posterity in the earth. So this Mercy and match was concluded,
and in process of time they marry™ were married; but more of that hereafter. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"When the posterity of Abraham had multiplied like the sands of the sea, the Deity,
from whose mouth they received a system of laws and ceremonies, ..."
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