Anterity

Quick meaning: Anterity is a noun meaning (rare) All the past generations, especially the ancestors of a specific person.

Meaning

(rare) All the past generations, especially the ancestors of a specific person.

Example Sentences

Heschel’s horizon looks to posterity, but it is rooted in what we might term “anterity,” the multifaceted layers of tradition.

The most sacred right of posterity is to annul the debts with which anterity has fraudulently tried to saddle it.—Cleveland Citizen.

Those who prove recreant to the trust, who, untrue to anterity and false to posterity, render liable the stain of conscription—such men simply write themselves down poltroons.

He died a comparatively young man, attributing his heart disease to his grandfather or somebody. We all blame our weaknesses on anterity and ascribe our virtues and strong features to our own wisdom and goodness.

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