| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section VIII. Causation | | 3. Power in Operation |
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| 167. Posterity. |
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| NOUN: | POSTERITY, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, children, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchildren.
CHILD, son, daughter, bairn, baby, kid [colloq.], papoose [Am. Ind.], imp, brat, moppet [archaic], lambkin, cub, cherub, nestling, tot, innocent, urchin, chit [colloq.]; infant [See Infant]; butcha or bacha [Hind.]; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; offshoot, offset; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip of the old block; heredity; rising generation.
LINEAGE, straight descent, sonship, line, filiation, primogeniture.
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| ADJECTIVE: | FILIAL; diphyletic.
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| QUOTATION: | The child is father of the man.—Wordsworth |
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