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Webster 1913 Edition
Futurity
Fu-tu′ri-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Futurities
. 1.
State of being that is yet to come; future state.
2.
Future time; time to come; the future.
3.
Event to come; a future event.
All
futurities
are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Futurity
FUTU'RITY
,Noun.
1.
Event to come.All futurities are naked before the all-seeing eye.
2.
The state of being yet to come, or to come hereafter.Definition 2024
futurity
futurity
English
Noun
futurity (plural futurities)
- the future
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XIII
- Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XIII
- the state of being in the future.
- a future event
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
- […] on this perhaps,
- This peradventure, infamous for lies,
- As on a rock of adamant, we build
- Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes,
- As we the fatal sisters could out-spin,
- And, big with life’s futurities, expire.
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I