Posterity
[pɒ'sterɪtɪ] or [pɑ'stɛrəti]
Definition
(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.
(n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Descendants, offspring, progeny, after ages, succeeding generations.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Futurity
ANT:Ancestry
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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Examples
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Every invention made is another permanent gift to posterity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- At one time he said, Whoever wishes to enjoy peace, and is gifted with great talents, must labor for posterity. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The future liberation of the public revenue they leave to the care of posterity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Since you have preserved my narration, said he, I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Posterity became my heirs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- An original creative impulse of the mind expresses itself in a certain formula; posterity mistakes the formula for the impulse. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Or as if he were bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As in the case of Alexander the Great and Julius C?sar, posterity has enormously exaggerated his memory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is our nature to wish to continue our systems and thoughts to posterity through our own offspring. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And posterity have also sometimes equally misapprehended the real value of his speculations. Plato. The Republic.
- It is to be hoped that at no distant day these Edisoniana will be assembled and arranged in a fireproof museum for the benefit of posterity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some go further, and speak of a fair posterity in the third and fourth generation. Plato. The Republic.
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