POSTER'ITY, n. [L. posteritas, from posterus, from post, after.] 1. Descendants; children, children's children, &c. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam.2. In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors. To the unhappy that unjustly bleed, Heav'n gives posterity t' avenge the deed.
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