Posthumous
['pɒstjʊməs] or ['pɑstʃəməs]
Definition
(adj.) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death; 'a posthumous award'; 'a posthumous book'; 'a posthumous daughter' .
Typed by Clint--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.
(a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.
(a.) Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation.
Checker: Steve
Definition
adj. born after the father's death: published after the death of the author.—adv. Post′humously.
Edited by Horace
Examples
- The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is--oblivion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have not seen the King of Prussia's posthumous works; what you mention makes me desirous to have them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She herself presently bore Alexander a posthumous son, who was also called Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was a posthumous child. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Here are the posthumous works of St. Pierre. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Grant Allen, in his _Evolution of the Idea of God_, laid stress chiefly on the posthumous worship of the Old Man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Horace