posterity

«posterity» in Mova's judaism dictionary: All the people who will live in the future, long after… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (no plural)

meaning for a pupil

All the people who will live in the future, long after us; the children and grandchildren still to come. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a tale or deed that will be remembered by later people; «to posterity» means for the future.

examples

• Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out. (Writings PSA.109.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• The king said the tale must not be lost to posterity. tree →
• What is good will shine brightly through posterity. tree →
• We write things down so that posterity can read them. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

In the corpora

• Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «posterity» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.