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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