anterity
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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All the past generations, especially the ancestors of a specific person.
— There was no secretary formally appointed by the meeting; but I thought that, this being the “Gibraltar” of Kansas, I would just quietly vote myself into that office, for the sake of posterity; we all owe something to our anterity, and I think we must place posterity under obligations to us.
词源
By analogy with posterity, replacing post- with ante-. By surface analysis, anter- + -i- + -ty.
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