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posthumously

[ pos-chuh-muhs-lee, -choo- ]

adverb

  1. after a person’s death, typically the death of the author or other artist:

    The sculpture, designed in 1967 by American artist Tony Smith, was exhibited posthumously.



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The opposite phenomenon also occurs: neglected writers who ascend to prominence only posthumously.

And the fact that Turing was only posthumously pardoned by the Queen late last year is pretty insane.

Posthumously, he's taken on a side gig as a zombie hunter, as well as a gay icon.

His novel The Last Magazine, published posthumously this month, is just like him:  blistering, fun, insightful, and profane.

And yet leave he did; he chose to exile himself—that is, to die and live posthumously elsewhere.

Miss Austen's last book, like her first, was published posthumously and she left nothing else but a couple of fragments.

For his Academy he made the elaborate notes for a Treatise on Painting which were posthumously published.

The lectures, published posthumously, became a text-book for students, and reached a nineteenth edition in 1851.

It will not be out of place to compare it with the hands of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, which were cast posthumously.

His Tractatus de materia medica, published posthumously in 1741, was long celebrated.

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