All 3 Uses
posterity
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Faust
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- What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What's genuine, shall Posterity inherit.†* - MERRY-ANDREW
Posterity!† - If I should choose to preach Posterity,
Where would you get contemporary fun?†
Definitions:
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(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.