posthumous
adjective
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Induction would be a fitting gesture, even now when the honor would be posthumous.
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.
2014 Oscar Predictions: Who Will and Who Should Be NominatedMarlow Stern, Kevin Fallon
January 15, 2014
Until this point, author images were generally reserved for religious pamphlets and posthumous poetry collections.
Historical Examples of posthumous
Sir William Blackstone was the posthumous son of a silk-mercer.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
An Irish student was once asked what was meant by posthumous works.
Then followed the Habsburgs, Albert and his posthumous son Ladislas.
From a Terrace in PragueLieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
It professed to be the posthumous work of Mirabaud, who had been secretary to the Academy.
Diderot and the EncyclopdistsJohn Morley