posthumously

Adverb

Meaning

In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

recently afterward posthumous retrospectively post-mortem postmortem postmortal post obitum upon death at death at the end of life appearing after the death awarded after the death occurring after the death after the death of the originator

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Antonyms

antemortem premortem perimortem anthumously prehumously ante-mortem

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Examples

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. Thomas Sowell

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.' Abraham Verghese

Some are born posthumously. Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously. Lois McMaster Bujold

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. Christopher Hitchens

Close letter words and terms

posthumous execution posthumous name posthumous work posthumousness posthurricane posthybridization