Definition of "posthumous" []

• Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award. (adjective)
• Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book. (adjective)
• Born after the death of the father: a posthumous child. (adjective)

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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."
• "This is why we call the posthumous life the only reality, and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself, only imaginary."
• "He brings this question as a plaintiff in the case he describes as a posthumous "love letter to the things Gerry believed in.""