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posterity
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Steppenwolf
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- You mean a name, and fame with posterity?†
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- And do you think that all true and real men have been famous and known to posterity?†
- But the image of every true act, the strength of every true feeling, belongs to eternity just as much, even though no one knows of it or sees it or records it or hands it down to posterity.†
- In eternity there is no posterity.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(posterity) all future generations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, posterity can refer to the future generations descended from an individual.