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posthumous
/ˈpɑs.t͡ʃə.məs/
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What does posthumous mean?
adjective
- After the death of someone.
- Taking place after one's own death.
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
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adjective
- In reference to a musical opus, published or initially performed after the composer's death.
- Born after the death of one's father.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɑs.t͡ʃə.məs/
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If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?
The trepanations reported from North America are generally posthumous, and we can prove nothing as to their origin.
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Good Americans, however, will still remain faithful to their old posthumous love, if only for her wine.
Popularity is an acquisition more level to the most ordinary capacities, and therefore is a subject of more general ambition, than posthumous fame.
The holiest of men, it appears, cannot be admitted to posthumous honours, until all that the devil could say against him is known and weighed.