posteriority
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of posteriority
1350–1400; Middle English pos-teriorite < Medieval Latin posteriōritās. See posterior, -ity
Example Sentences
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He would take full responsibility for the toilet if not for the "awkward posteriority of buttons and buttocks."
From Time Magazine Archive
The posteriority of these as we have them need not be too much dwelt upon.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
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 Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
But in the divine persons there exists neither priority nor posteriority, as declared by Athanasius.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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