futurity
the afterlife: the promise of eternal rest in futurity.
the quality of being future: the futurity of the end of the world.
Also called futurity race .Horse Racing. a race, usually for two-year-olds, in which the entrants are selected long before the race is run, sometimes before the birth of the foal.
Origin of futurity
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How to use futurity in a sentence
And further, why didst thou deliver oracles to him concerning futurities?
The Antiquities of the Jews | Flavius JosephusBut since that is not so it would follow, according to him, that contingent futurities have no determinate truth.
Theodicy | G. W. LeibnizThat is why contingent futurities, foreseen both in themselves and through their reasons, remain contingent.
Theodicy | G. W. LeibnizHe applied them (amongst other ways) to our belief in the uniform futurities of Nature.
The Philosophy of Natural Theology | William JacksonIt was richly in unison with his own nature, and I believe he had a ravishing vision of its magnificent futurities.
On the Stairs | Henry B. Fuller
British Dictionary definitions for futurity
/ (fjuːˈtjʊərɪtɪ) /
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