anterity

Etymology

By analogy with posterity, replacing post- with ante-. By surface analysis, anter- + -i- + -ty.

noun

  1. 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.”