Meaning of eftertid | Babel Free

Definitions

posterity

common-gender, definite, especially, no-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“1966, 2016, Palle Lauring, Norge, Lindhardt og Ringhof”

The truth is different: that the nearest posterity is always the most critical one, the most reluctant one, because the nearest posterity is usually fleeing from whatever the previous generation created.

“Et fællestræk for de historiske personligheder, vi har skrevet biografier om de seneste årtier, er, at de enten har haft en vis grad af indflydelse og gennemslagskraft i deres samtid, eller at^([sic]) de er blevet tillagt en betydning i deres eftertid.”

A common trait of the historical individuals about whom we have written biographies these last decades is that they have either had a certain degree of influence and impact in their own time, or that^([sic]) significance has been attributed to them in their posterity.

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