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post·hu·mous

 (pŏs′chə-məs)
adj.
1. Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award.
2. Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book.
3. Born after the death of the father: a posthumous child.
[Middle English posthumus, from Late Latin, alteration (perhaps influenced by Latin humus, earth or humāre, to bury) of postumus, superlative of posterus, coming after; see posterior.]
post′hu·mous·ly adv.
post′hu·mous·ness n.

posthumous

(ˈpɒstjʊməs)
adj
1. happening or continuing after one's death
2. (of a book, etc) published after the author's death
3. (of a child) born after the father's death
[C17: from Latin postumus the last, but modified as though from Latin post after + humus earth, that is, after the burial]
ˈposthumously adv

post•hu•mous

(ˈpɒs tʃə məs, -tʃʊ-)

adj.
1. arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death.
2. published after the death of the author.
3. born after the death of the father.
[1600–10; < Latin postumus last-born, born after the father's death (in form a superlative of posterus; see posterior); post-classical sp. with h by association with humus ground, earth, as if referring to burial]
post′hu•mous•ly, adv.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.posthumous - occurring or coming into existence after a person's death; "a posthumous award"; "a posthumous book"; "a posthumous daughter"
late - being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"

posthumous

adjective
Occurring or done after death:
postmortem.
Translations
حادِثٌ بَعدَ وفاة الشَّخْصمَولودٌ بَعد وفاةْ أبيه
posmrtnýpohrobek
posthum
kuolemanjälkeinenpostuumi
posztumuszutószülött
fæddur eftir dauîa föîurssem gerist eftir dauîa
gimęs po tėvo mirtiespo mirtiespomirtinis
dzimis pēc tēva nāvespēcnāves-
narodený po smrti otcaposmrtný
postum
babasının ölümünden sonra doğanölümünden sonra

posthumous

[ˈpɒstjʊməs] ADJ → póstumo

posthumous

[ˈpɒstjʊməs] adj → posthume

posthumous

adj → post(h)um; child → nachgeboren

posthumous

[ˈpɒstjʊməs] adj → postumo/a

posthumous

(ˈpostjuməs) adjective
1. happening, coming etc to a person after his death. the posthumous publication of his book.
2. (of a child) born after its father has died.
ˈposthumously adverb

post·hu·mous

a. póstumo, que ocurre después de la muerte.
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As regarded Judge Pyncheon, it seemed probable, at first blush, that the mode of his final departure might give him a larger and longer posthumous vogue than ordinarily attends the memory of a distinguished man.
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Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.
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The author had revised this posthumous work of Mr Strutt.
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Yes yes," said Caderousse; and his eyes glistened at the thought of this posthumous revenge.
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Higginbotham cared about posthumous renown, his untimely ghost would have exulted in this tumult.
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It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor.
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Quaint enough, but certainly no instance of anybody's wit, is the account of how a French translation of a play of Vanbrugh--not architect of Blenheim only, but accomplished in many other ways--appeared at the Odeon, in 1862, with all fitting raptures, as a posthumous work of Voltaire recently discovered.
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Jonson, the posthumous son of an impoverished gentleman-clergyman, was born in London in 1573.
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There were no legacies, no annuities, none of the posthumous bustle with which some of the dead prolong their activities.
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She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure.
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Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.
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I have recently written to the Gazette advocating a posthumous knighthood (for services to music) for former Beatle, the late John Lennon.
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