futurity
noun
future time.
futurities
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pluralof futurity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At events called futurities, the bulls could now compete directly against one another, carrying dummy cowboys on their backs while judges rated their bucking ability.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
If all went well, the bull would get sent to thirty-five or forty rodeos a year, earning five to ten thousand in fees and up to a hundred thousand in futurities and other winnings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
If denial such as brands my brow Be in your heavenly regions, too, confessed, Oh may it prove the truth that your still eyes Foresee the end of all futurities!
From Along the Shore by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
We must therefore not imagine with some Schoolmen, whose ideas tend towards the chimerical, that free contingent futurities have the privilege of exemption from this general rule of the nature of things.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
Guesses at futurities were made from the falling of a crumb of bread out of one's mouth or a staff from a man's hand, from a person sneezing, or the breaking of a shoe-latchet.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
