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Definition of: posterity
(pos·ter′ə·tē) noun
1. The stock that proceeds from a progenitor; a person's descendants; also, succeeding generations, taken collectively: the posterity of Adam.
2. Posteriority. [<OF posterite <L posteritas <posterus. See POSTERIOR.]
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