The Only Use of
posterity
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Their immediate posterity, the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up.†
p. 216.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(posterity) all future generations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, posterity can refer to the future generations descended from an individual.