posterity

[ po-ster-i-tee ]

/ pɒˈstɛr ɪ ti /

succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.

all descendants of one person: His fortune was gradually dissipated by his posterity.

Origin of posterity

1350–1400; Middle English posterite < Latin posteritās, noun derivative of posterus coming after. See posterior, -ity

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Rand Paul’s Many Leather-Bound Books |Olivia Nuzzi |November 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As he once told Brassai, the Gagosian exhibition catalog states, “I want to leave as complete a record as possible for posterity.”

Revealing The Unseen Picasso |Justin Jones |November 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her face was cast into a plaster mold, preserving her shy smile for posterity.

Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing Horrors |Nina Strochlic |July 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And our victory in that war decided not just a century, but shaped the security and well-being of all posterity.

D-Day 70th Anniversary Celebrations: Queen, Obama, Merkel, Putin and Cameron in France |Tom Sykes |June 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

If not for posterity, if not for the defense of the United States Constitution, then do it for Mickey.

Our Dumb Puritan Laws: Sex Bans and Illegal Adultery |Kevin Bleyer |April 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Comedy is the title which Dante gives to his trilogy and posterity has added the prefix adjective divine.

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" |John T. Slattery
Still the falsehood will go down to posterity,” said Lady Clementina; “and after ages will think I was a gambler.

Nature and Art |Mrs. Inchbald
It is only now, now, for the first time, that I have been fancying myself going down to posterity in the company of the immortals.

The Gorgeous Isle |Gertrude Atherton
The nature of her relations to him should ensure the preservation of her name to posterity.

Women of Modern France (Illustrated) |Hugo Paul Thieme (1870-1940)
To have broken his word is a crime for which posterity will never forgive Moore.

My Recollections of Lord Byron |Teresa Guiccioli

posterity

/ (pɒˈstɛrɪtɪ) /

future or succeeding generations

all of one's descendants

C14: from French postérité, from Latin posteritās future generations, from posterus coming after, from post after