Meanings of posthumous fame in English

Never was a man dealt with more generously by posthumous fame.

As for posthumous fame, Browne confides to us his aspirations in that matter also:-

The first is the sentimental phantasm of posthumous fame.

Dippy's posthumous fame began in 1898 when railroad workers uncovered bones in the plains of fossil-rich Wyoming.

They are full of amusing anecdotes; but I don't care for fame, as you well know-especiallyposthumous fame.

Still we each of us in our own small way try to get what little posthumous fame we can.

Another man strives to gain posthumous fame without believing in an afterlife that would give him knowledge of that fame.

And the contestants, however great their posthumous fame, were as yet merely ambitious politicians, supremely interested in winning the splendid prize.

The "appeal to posterity," the desire for a posthumous fame, seems with them to have been slower of conception.

Popularity is an acquisition more level to the most ordinary capacities, and therefore is a subject of more general ambition, than posthumous fame.

There was here the almost inhuman impassibility of one who had thought too closely on the paradoxical aspect of the love of posthumous fame.

Even the hope of posthumous fame-themost refined and supersensual of all that can be called reward-couldexist only for the most conspicuous leaders.

Mr. Godwin, during his lifetime, has secured to himself the triumphs and the mortifications of an extreme notoriety and of a sort of posthumous fame.

The New Yorker, October 19, 1968 P. 65 Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame.

Posthumous fame is- anothing