Both Uses of
posterity
in
Middlemarch
- Or as if he were bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person!†
Chpt 3 *
- References were extensive even here, but not altogether shoreless; and sentences were actually to be written in the shape wherein they would be scanned by Brasenose and a less formidable posterity.†
Chpt 3
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.