posteritie

English

Noun

posteritie (usually uncountable, plural posterities)

1. Obsolete spelling of posterity.
   • 1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590‎^[1]:

     liuing of the poſteritie to be imbraced, […]

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:

     [A]nother [critic] has vovvde to get the conſumption of the lungues, or to leue to poſteritie the true orthography and pronunciation of laughing: […]

   • 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel‎^[2], Dublin, page 17:

     Our fond Begetters, who would never die,
     Love but themselves in their posteritie.