Both Uses
posterity
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Tunnel In the Sky
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- These colonists have paid a premium of sixteen thousand four hundred per person-not counting exempt or co-opted members-for the privilege of seeking their fortunes and protecting their posterity by moving to New Canaan.†
Chpt 1 *
- "It is extremely important," he informed her in the presence of the village, "that we have a full record of these pioneer days for posterity.†
Chpt 10
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.