posthumous

IPA: pˈɑstʃʊmʌs

adjective

  • After the death of someone.
  • Taking place after one's own death.
  • In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
  • (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
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Examples of "posthumous" in Sentences

  • (Unless the author is dead and the book is posthumous, which is a slightly different kettle of fish.)
  • Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times.
  • But will the millions of children who adored Irwin’s life-affirming presence stick with him in posthumous reruns?
  • He brings this question as a plaintiff in the case he describes as a posthumous "love letter to the things Gerry believed in."
  • This is why we call the posthumous life the only reality, and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself, only imaginary.
  • At one time or another (including copyrights) this person has had about fourteen hundred pounds of my money, and he writes what he calls a posthumous work about me, and a scrubby letter accusing me of treating him ill, when I never did any such thing.
  • My father was what is generally termed a posthumous child — in other words, the gentillatre who begot him never had the satisfaction of invoking the blessing of the Father of All upon his head; having departed this life some months before the birth of his youngest son.

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