Crossword clues for posterity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Posterity \Pos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. post['e]rit['e]. See Posterior.]
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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.
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Succeeding generations; future times.
--Shak.Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
--Shak.Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
--Smalridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French posterité (14c.), from Latin posteritatem (nominative posteritas) "future, future time; after-generation, offspring;" literally "the condition of coming after," from posterus "coming after, subsequent," from post "after" (see post-). Old English words for this included æftercneoreso, framcynn.
Wiktionary
n. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
WordNet
n. all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity" [syn: descendants]
all future generations
Usage examples of "posterity".
Posterity admires, and will long admire, the awful remains of the amphitheatre of Titus, which so well deserved the epithet of Colossal.
We know, however, his posterity and what kind of politics were to claim the authorization of the man who claimed to be the last antipolitical German.
Antoine de la Mery had no objection to a posterity that labelled him clever.
But, still, he had to justify himself either upon his own account or for the benefit of that posterity to conciliate which so many public men have paltered with the truth.
Now if you leave it to posterity to write the panegyric on these men, you take away as it were from those who die an honourable death the funeral oration to which, by the customs of our ancestors, they are entitled.
In the fourth month of his premiership he died at his post, leaving to posterity a great name, and an eternal reproach against his unprincipled persecutors.
Sometimes it was a young man and a maiden, handed down to posterity in dresses that would have caused their arrest in the street, sentimentally reclining on a canvas rock.
My only course To make good showance to posterity Was to implant my line upon the throne.
Fuller or Lord Quarryman, whose estates abutted on Worsted Skeynes, and there was grave and imminent danger of its going back, it was promptly shot and stuffed, that it might not be lost to posterity.
Two snaps and the couple was satisfied that their presence there was documented for posterity.
The Czar Peter, in the full possession of despotic power, submitted to the judgment of Russia, of Europe, and of posterity, the reasons which had compelled him to subscribe the condemnation of a criminal, or at least of a degenerate son.
I suppose, looked on me as his posterity -- as someone who would continue his respectable, professionally competent, unaspiring life.
My name perhaps among the circumcised, In Dan, in Judah, and the bordering tribes, To all posterity may stand defamed, With malediction mentioned, and the blot Of falsehood most unconjugal traduced.
Extra-Legal Devices It is, of course, a rhetorical exaggeration to say that all first-class men escape marriage, and even more of an exaggeration to say that their high qualities go wholly untransmitted to posterity.
Deeply hurt, Adams had written an extraordinary reply, a dissertation on the subject of vanity set forth in his clearest, plainest hand, as if intended for posterity as much as for Gerry.