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posthumously

See also: post-humously

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Etymology

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From posthumous +‎ -ly.

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  • Hyphenation: pos‧thum‧ous‧ly

Adverb

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posthumously (not comparable)

  1. After death.
    • 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4:
      In his boyhood that posthumously libelled sovereign lady, Anne, had terribly prevailed among the dwellings on this highway; […]
    • 2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home. And he did, although posthumously.
    • 2017 December 21, “Holocaust victims and Queen Mother posthumously baptised by Mormons”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      Mormons have recently posthumously baptised at least 20 Holocaust victims, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and the Queen Mother, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church’s massive genealogical database.
    • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
      In the following month, driver Ben Gimbert and fireman Jim Nightall (posthumously) were awarded the George Cross, the highest honour the King could give civilians.

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