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posteritie

posteritie is the obsolete spelling of posterity.

Meaning of posterity

Noun

posterity (usually uncountable, plural posterities)

  1. (usually) All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
    • That woman foretold and inflicted a singular disease on Sigvard and his posterity till the ninth generation, and several of his descendants are to this day afflicted with it.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 252
  2. (usually, transferred sense, almost always preceded by for) Future audiences, future times, future recognition.

Forms of posteritie

pluralposterities

Questions about posteritie

What is posteritie the obsolete spelling of?
Posteritie is the obsolete spelling of posterity.

Words near posteritie in the dictionary

  1. posterish
  2. posterishness
  3. posterising
  4. posterist
  5. posterists
  6. posteritie
  7. posterities
  8. posterity
  9. posterization
  10. posterizations
  11. posterize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: posteritie (page history and authors); posterity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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