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
- Four of the awards were posthumous.
- The posthumous publications are in the article.
- Some people believe that there is a posthumous life.
- The number of characters in posthumous names was increasing.
- Maria, the posthumous child was born during the summer of 1192.
- He was the posthumous son of the seventh Baronet of the 1625 creation.
- His gallantry was recognized in the posthumous award of the Navy Cross.
- Most of the posthumous success is credited to the song Out of the Dark.
- I don't remember the sources for the posthumous and temple names of Puyi.
- He is the posthumous author of The Making of a Soldier, published in 1935.
- (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.