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Posterity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person. uncountable, usually

    "The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement."

  2. 2
    all future generations wordnet
  3. 3
    Future audiences, future times, future recognition. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    all of the offspring of a given progenitor wordnet

Etymology

Late 14th century, from Middle French posterité, from Latin posteritas, from posterus (“following, coming after”), from post (“after”) (English post-).

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