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Meanings of posthumous in anglès

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постгумальный
portuguès
homenagem póstuma
espanyol
reconocimiento póstumo
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Quality of being applicable to a person after their death.

pòstum

Posthumous.

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Usage of posthumous in anglès
1
A posthumous show of her work was discussed, but never took place.
The Guardian
2
Connors thanked his fans in a posthumous statement released by his family.
Reuters
3
The publication of English Seamen and the Council of Trent was posthumous.
The Life of Froude
4
The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is-oblivion.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1
5
Harvey himself was but the posthumous child of the great Elizabethan period.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
6
Renewal may be claimed as proprietor of copyright in a posthumous work.
Supplementary Copyright Statutes, US Copy. Office
7
Putin ordered Shoigu to prepare posthumous state awards for the dead submariners.
Reuters
8
The posthumous yarn of the mate of an English whaler disproves this.
The Honour of the Flag
9
The human and canine carcasses jerked and danced in a posthumous fit.
Perdido Street Station
10
Jefferson's posthumous works were very generally circulated whilst I was in America.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
11
Wherefore posthumous honors are never mockeries, but realities, to the Japanese mind.
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
12
His struggles, his steadfastness, his success-patheticallyposthumous-havegiven him an honorable eminence.
French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
13
Here, beyond question, is one great literary figure paying posthumous tribute to another.
The Guardian
14
Last December, after a long campaign, Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon.
The Guardian
15
His last, posthumous book demonstrates this in new and unexpected ways.
The Irish Times
16
The posthumous nocturne in E minor, composed in 1827, is weak and uninteresting.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Posthumous across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common