anterity

noun

1. (rare, uncountable)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.”

   “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.”