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Definition of "posteriority" []

  • The condition of being posterior in location or time. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "posteriority" in a sentence
  • "I understand that he argues for some form of Matthean posteriority, but I'll have to wait for the book to get the details."
  • "You may be interested to read Jim West's review of "the myth of the lost gospel" which argues for Matthean posteriority."
  • "H.A. Wolfson has presented evidence for A.istotle's recognition of a type of term intermediate between equivocal and univocal terms, some instances of which were characterized by their use according to priority and posteriority."