
n.
- Future generations: "Everything he writes is consigned to posterity" (Joyce Carol Oates).
- All of a person's descendants.
[Middle English posterite, from Old French, from Latin posteritās, from posterus, coming after. See posterior.]
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[Middle English posterite, from Old French, from Latin posteritās, from posterus, coming after. See posterior.]
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n.
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.
— George Ade (1866-1944)
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"We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us."
- Joseph Addison
"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
- George Ade
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else."
- Heywood Broun
"A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity."
- Miguel De Cervantes
"History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking."
- Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - senere slægter
Nederlands (Dutch)
nageslacht, komende generaties
Français (French)
n. - postérité
Deutsch (German)
n. - Nachwelt
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οι) μεταγενέστεροι, (οι) απόγονοι, (οι) επιγενόμενοι
Português (Portuguese)
n. - posteridade (f)
Español (Spanish)
n. - descendencia
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - eftervärlden, kommande generationer
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
子孙, 后裔
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 子孫, 後裔
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) ذريه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - צאצאים, הדורות הבאים
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