Meanings of posthumous son in English

She adopted his posthumous son, and brought him home with her.

Mrs. Taylor had a posthumous son, who never has set foot in Australia.

Then he promptly died, and eight months afterwards a posthumous son was born.

Sir William Blackstone was the posthumous son of a silk-mercer.

Then followed the Habsburgs, Albert and his posthumous son Ladislas.

A posthumous son born to him he called Agrippa.

The second posthumous son of Zoroaster is Oschedermah.

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

But Lycurgus soon resigned the crown to the posthumous son of Polydectes, and went into voluntary exile.

One of his most charming and touching poems is entitled To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick, a posthumous son.

Horus is reborn as the posthumous son of Osiris, and Ra gladdens his abode during his nightly journey through the Underworld.

Even in the duration of his minority, he had the superiority over the young Duke, for the Marquess was a posthumous son.

On May 17th, 1886, a posthumous son was born, who is now the titular King of Spain.

Meantime old stories were being circulated throughout France discrediting the legitimacy of the Duc de Bordeaux, the posthumous son of the Duc de Berri.

One of them, the youngest, married late in life, and dying soon after left a widow and a posthumous son John, of whom more hereafter.

As for fathers, I often thought to myself, "What a tremendous army of posthumous sons!"