Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

posteritie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pos-ter-i-tie
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete spelling of posterity.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"liuing of the poſteritie to be imbraced, […]"
"That my poſteritie ſham’d with the note / Shall curſe my bones, and hold it for no ſinne, / To wiſh that I their father had not beene."
"[A]nother [critic] has vovvde to get the conſumption of the lungues, or to leue to poſteritie the true orthography and pronunciation of laughing: […]"
"Our fond Begetters, who would never die, Love but themselves in their posteritie."

Usage

Inflected Forms

posterities (plural)

Questions

What does posteritie mean?: Obsolete spelling of posterity.

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