Occurring after death

Usage examples of posthumous.

Even death, it seems, won stop us, since Heinlein has already published a posthumous book and reissues of his old novels are in the works.

His role as posthumous author is like the medieval role of Death: he mocks at all human affairs and reveals the seven deadly sins.

I replied, in a newspaper article, that such phenomena were frequently met with in psychic research, and stated that, despite the classification of materialistic scientists, these cases clearly proved the posthumous existence of spirits and their ability to communicate through mortals.

Either that or the gardener has created a posthumous masterpiece that shall ensure his future immortality among topiarists -- were there any posterity to bestow it upon.

I had at that time to attend to the affairs of my posthumous brother, who had, as he said, a call from Heaven to the priesthood, but he wanted a patrimony.

The Greek artist and the Mediaeval painter, when the costumes were really picturesque and made us forget the lack of simplicity in a noble sumptuousness, had never this posthumous difficulty to contend with.

He was a posthumous son, born like Mahomet, three months after the death of his father.

Even death, it seems, won stop us, since Heinlein has already published a posthumous book and reissues of his old novels are in the works.

Hollywood scriptwriter who remained unheralded during his lifetime, but has now received posthumous acclaim for his workin particular his darkly accurate pictures of smalltime con artists, congenital liars and occasional killers.

Hollywood scriptwriter who remained unheralded during his lifetime, but has now received posthumous acclaim for his work-in particular his darkly accurate pictures of smalltime con artists, congenital liars and occasional killers.

In my pedigree, which I knew by heart, Don Juan, my direct ancestor, was a posthumous child.

A BOY: He who always stood central, whose phenotypes are the bounceback man and the Grinder, whose posthumous papers we will examine in his lifetime, thinks he still stands central.

Fascinated by the discovery, Aureliano, read aloud without skipping the chanted encyclicals that Melquíades himself had made Arcadio listen to and that were in reality the prediction of his execution, and he found the announcement of the birth of the most beautiful woman in the world who was rising up to heaven in body and soul, and he found the origin of the posthumous twins who gave up deciphering the parchments, not simply through incapacity and lack of drive, but also because their attempts were premature.

I mean, if there's a Miss Manners for monsters or Emily Post for the posthumous, I've missed the advice column.

Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, through her, projects a baleful posthumous existence.