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posthumous

/pos-chuh-muhs, -choo-/US // ˈpɒs tʃə məs, -tʃʊ- //UK // (ˈpɒstjʊməs) //

死后,死后的,身后,身后的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
    • : published after the death of the author: a posthumous novel.
    • : born after the death of the father.

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Examples

  • Beginning with One in a Million and set to culminate with I Care 4 U and Ultimate Aaliyah, the late singer’s final two albums and posthumous compilations will appear across Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes and Deezer.

  • Oh, and Ono was also the co-creator of Lennon’s latest work, Double Fantasy, which would later win a posthumous Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

  • The Kowalskis turned Bob Ross’s posthumous brand into a marketing powerhouse.

  • Culled from recordings and interviews made during his lifetime, this posthumous self-narration of his own story lets us glean for ourselves what insight we may.

  • In the years since his death, there have been no shortage of retrospectives and tributes, and posthumous works from the man himself, but on July 16 a documentary about his life will be hitting theaters.

  • Induction would be a fitting gesture, even now when the honor would be posthumous.

  • Smith, who died in 2010, has been the subject of numerous posthumous sex-abuse allegations.

  • Last year, his widow and his brother pulled 150 of them for posthumous publication, with a plan to release eight to 10 per year.

  • Last July in Moscow, Magnitsky was given a posthumous punishment for his effrontery by being put on trial for tax evasion.

  • He scored the posthumous Screen Actors Guild nomination, which I think could push him into the Oscars final five.

  • But he did not publish the sonnets until a long time afterwards, and with a success that the author declared to be posthumous.

  • The Waltz without opus number and the Sonata, Op. 4, are likewise posthumous publications.

  • He wrote as a man would dictate an essay which was to appear as a posthumous work.

  • We hope that this posthumous justification of the sentence is as satisfactory to the judges as it is to the criminal!

  • He took immediate steps to regain the possession of the deceased millionaire's property in the interest of his posthumous child.