<entry id="2209371" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1269810</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>後世</keb>
<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf14</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>こうせい</reb>
<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf14</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<pos>&adv;</pos>
<gloss>posterity</gloss>
<gloss>future generations</gloss>
<gloss>future life</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2021-03-31 04:33:41" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Bulk update n-adv to n,adv
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -15 +15 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n-adv;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adv;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 01:00:27" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
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<upd_refs>I think "life to come" usually refers to a supernatural afterlife

Is [adv] right? It's often used with the に particle but this isn't what I'd consider an adverb. The GG5 examples make it seem like a normal noun.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────────╮
│ 後世　　　　　 │ 511,542 │
│ 後世に　　　　 │ 304,798 │
│ 後世の　　　　 │ 106,297 │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;future generations&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -19 +19,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;life to come&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 01:24:34" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>I think it's primarily an adverb.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>後世が	1814</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 01:42:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>I think its  primarily a noun and our glosses are noun glosses.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -16 +16,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 21:16:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>More that it's a noun mostly used adverbally.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 23:47:58" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>No, it's usually (or almost always) a noun. 後世に isn't adverbial; it's used in expressions like 後世に伝える, 後世に残す, etc. I think 後世 can only be an adverb at the the start of a sentence or clause (with the meaning "in the ages to come").</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>