posteriority

American  

[po-steer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, poh-] / pɒˌstɪər iˈɔr ɪ ti, -ˈɒr-, poʊ- /

noun

1. the state or quality of being posterior.

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Etymology

Origin of posteriority

1350–1400; Middle English pos-teriorite < Medieval Latin posteriōritās. See posterior, -ity

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Example Sentences

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posteriority

He would take full responsibility for the toilet if not for the "awkward posteriority of buttons and buttocks."

From Time Magazine Archive

To dispute over the posteriority or priority of mind is all very well, but to deny mind in the name of fatality is an exclusion which nothing justifies.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

The names of the others are found on linguistic and other tablets, in a connection which rarely enables us to determine anything with respect to their relative priority or posteriority.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

So now he'll go down to remote posteriority with a shabby Hat, and a old pair of gloves on his table.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 by Various

The twelfth is birth, as a man is begotten of his father; which implies priority and posteriority of time.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

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