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posthumous

adjective as in after death

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Induction would be a fitting gesture, even now when the honor would be posthumous.

Smith, who died in 2010, has been the subject of numerous posthumous sex-abuse allegations.

Last year, his widow and his brother pulled 150 of them for posthumous publication, with a plan to release eight to 10 per year.

Last July in Moscow, Magnitsky was given a posthumous punishment for his effrontery by being put on trial for tax evasion.

He scored the posthumous Screen Actors Guild nomination, which I think could push him into the Oscars final five.

But he did not publish the sonnets until a long time afterwards, and with a success that the author declared to be posthumous.

The Waltz without opus number and the Sonata, Op. 4, are likewise posthumous publications.

He wrote as a man would dictate an essay which was to appear as a posthumous work.

We hope that this posthumous justification of the sentence is as satisfactory to the judges as it is to the criminal!

He took immediate steps to regain the possession of the deceased millionaire's property in the interest of his posthumous child.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to posthumous, such as: post mortem, post-obit, and post-obituary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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