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单词 futurity
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futurityn.

Brit. /fjuːˈtjʊərᵻti/, /fjᵿˈtjʊərᵻti/, /fjuːˈtʃʊərᵻti/, /fjᵿˈtʃʊərᵻti/, /fjuːˈtjɔːrᵻti/, /fjᵿˈtjɔːrᵻti/, /fjuːˈtʃɔːrᵻti/, /fjᵿˈtʃɔːrᵻti/, U.S. /fjuˈt(j)ʊrədi/, /fjəˈt(j)ʊrədi/, /fjuˈtʃʊrədi/, /fjəˈtʃʊrədi/
Etymology: < future adj. and n. + -ity suffix.
1. The quality, state, or fact of being future; = futurition n. 2. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > state or condition of being future
futurity1637
futurition1666
futureness1829
tomorrowness1897
1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 11 The hope of my blessednes is not here: the futurity of which doth no way mitigate my comfort.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing viii. 74 The bare Possibilities, which never commence into a Futurity.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 56 The comforting elements of futurity and uncertainty.
2. Future time; the future; a future space of time.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun]
to-comec1350
the futurec1400
hereafter1546
tocoming1556
aftertime1557
after age1560
after hours1599
futuritya1616
afterwards1669
to-be1819
coming1833
by and by1868
hence1904
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 115 Nor present sorrowes, Nor purpos'd merrit, in futurity . View more context for this quotation
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 60 A white Spot..which in futurity proves the Heart with its Veins and arteries.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 170 Involv'd in the dark Bosom of Futurity.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 58 Futurity's blank page.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose i, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 162 These events were still in the womb of futurity.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. xxxiii. 346 The particular events and personages of a distant futurity.
1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) iii. 64 Throwing forward into the darkness of futurity an image of himself here.
3. What is future.
a. What will exist or happen in the future; future events as a whole. Also †those that will live in the future, posterity (obsolete rare).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun]
futuresc1374
the futurea1616
future history1650
futurity1651
futurity1664
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. C3 And perhaps not out of the reach of futurity to exhibit.
1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 21 Apr. 2/1 A Wretch racked..with..a secret dread of Futurity.
1738 J. Swift Let. 24 Aug. I will..contrive some way to be known to futurity, that [etc.].
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 19 We must have no Share or Lot in the Glories of Futurity.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 60 An Egyptian monk, who possessed..the knowledge of futurity.
1855 tr. Napoleon in J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon I. xxiv. 389 The caprices of fate and the uncertainty of futurity.
b. plural. Future events.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun]
futuresc1374
the futurea1616
future history1650
futurity1651
futurity1664
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋304 In the futurities of our performances.
1694 J. Howe in H. Rogers Life (1863) x. 285 Such sad futurities God, in mercy to us, hides from us.
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke xxi. 7 What an itching Curiosity there is in the best of Men, to know Futurities.
1779 B. Franklin Let. 3 June in Wks. (1888) VI. 420 I must one of these days go back to see him..but futurities are uncertain.
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 177 O centuries That roll, in vision, your futurities My future grave athwart.
a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1891) I. 85 The reader whose scholarship is yet amongst his futurities.
c. State or condition in the future. Also, existence after death.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > future world or condition
hereafter1702
futurity1741
future1852
hence1884
the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > future state
other worldOE
worldOE
everlastingnessa1382
futurity1741
other sidea1822
happy hunting-ground(s)1826
Silent Land1826
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. iii. 166 The expectation of a futurity.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 355 Rules..which teach Mankind how to secure a happy Futurity.
1793 J. Boswell Life Johnson (ed. 2) anno 1775 II. 200 [Johnson:] This futurity of Whiggism.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 232 Futurity..What we are to be, determined by what we have been.
1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. v. 97 The practical dangers to which the futurity of representative governments will be exposed.

Compounds

futurity race n. a race for futurity stakes.
futurity stakes n. stakes to be raced for at some future date, often long after the entries or nominations are made; also, a race so arranged.
ΚΠ
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 335/2 The Futurity Stakes, the richest event of the year..is for two-year-olds, and is run at Sheepshead Bay [U.S.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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