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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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
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
He asked indignantly how the House of Lords could expect the Commons to give their concurrence to a measure "by which they and their posterities are to be excluded from the Peerage."
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
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
Remember, it is not before my Lord Buckhurst and Master Beale that we sit, but before all posterities for evermore, who will hear of Mary Stewart and her wrongs.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
