Pos-tĕr′i-ty, n.

n. [Lat. posteritas, Fr. postérité, Pr. posteritat, Sp. posteridad, It. posterità. See Pos-TERIOR.] The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor or a generation; — contrasted with ancestry.

In me all posterity stands cursed. Milton.