Both Uses
posterity
in
The Joy Luck Club
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- "The third word in the next line," explained Baba, "was worn off the slab, its meaning washed away by centuries of rain, almost lost to posterity forever."†
Chpt 5
- What if they tell me this curving line branching into three oval shapes is a pomegranate and that my mother was wishing me fertility and posterity?†
Chpt 15 *
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.