Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring or continuing after one's death.
- adjective Published after the writer's death.
- adjective Born after the death of the father.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Born after the death of the father: as, a posthumous son.
- Appearing or existing after the death or cessation of that to which its origin is due; especially, of books, published after the death of the author: as, posthumous works.
- noun A posthumous child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother.
- adjective Published after the death of the author
- adjective Being or continuing after one's death.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective originally Born after the death of one's father.
- adjective After the
death of someone - adjective Taking place after one's own death
- adjective In reference to a
work , published after theauthor 's death.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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This is why we call the posthumous life the only reality, and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself, only imaginary.
Death—and After? Annie Wood Besant 1890
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He brings this question as a plaintiff in the case he describes as a posthumous "love letter to the things Gerry believed in."
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Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times.
Commonplace 2010
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Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times.
Checking in on Thoreau: arguing about John Brown and finding friends in windfall acorns 2009
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But will the millions of children who adored Irwin’s life-affirming presence stick with him in posthumous reruns?
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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But will the millions of children who adored Irwin’s life-affirming presence stick with him in posthumous reruns?
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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(Unless the author is dead and the book is posthumous, which is a slightly different kettle of fish.)
msagara: Acts of faith & entitlement issues msagara 2009
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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.
Lavengro 2004
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