posterity
noun
succeeding or future generations collectively.
posterities
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pluralof posterity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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During those primeval centuries, there lived at the same time nine patriarchs, together with their posterities, and all of them in harmony concerning the faith in the blessed seed!
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker
BUT Love has more to do with his own possible and probable posterities, than with the once living but now impossible ancestries in the past.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
If you and those in power with you should be found walking in the King’s steps, can you secure yourselves or posterities from an overturn?
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Friar Bacon reading one day of the many conquests of England, bethought himself how he might keep it hereafter from the like conquests, and to make himself famous hereafter to all posterities.
From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous
