Definition of posthumously in English:
posthumously
adverb ˈpɒstjʊməsliˈpɑstʃəməsli
After the death of the originator.
a number of songs were posthumously published in 1924
Example sentencesExamples
- He was one of those prophets whose wisdom is posthumously discovered in an attic of trash.
- It is one thing to liberate an artist's work posthumously, and quite another to see the man himself set free.
- The artist, for his part, promised that all his debts should be paid posthumously out of his estate.
- The last of his volumes of journals, published in 1997, marked the close of his writing career, although a volume of pithy jottings from a notebook appeared posthumously.
- He has just joined Thomas Jefferson in an elite club of architects who have received the institute's gold medal posthumously.
- In 1922, she was posthumously made the first woman member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
- He didn't have time to complete his major work, fragments of which were compiled posthumously as the Pensées.
- Written when Strauss was dying and first performed posthumously, they look back with profound contentment over his life and his marriage.
- He has been selected to receive, posthumously, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers.
- The new edit was released posthumously in 1978.
Definition of posthumously in US English:
posthumously
adverbˈpɑstʃəməsliˈpäsCHəməslē
After the death of the originator.
a number of songs were posthumously published in 1924
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1922, she was posthumously made the first woman member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
- Written when Strauss was dying and first performed posthumously, they look back with profound contentment over his life and his marriage.
- The artist, for his part, promised that all his debts should be paid posthumously out of his estate.
- He has been selected to receive, posthumously, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers.
- He didn't have time to complete his major work, fragments of which were compiled posthumously as the Pensées.
- It is one thing to liberate an artist's work posthumously, and quite another to see the man himself set free.
- He has just joined Thomas Jefferson in an elite club of architects who have received the institute's gold medal posthumously.
- He was one of those prophets whose wisdom is posthumously discovered in an attic of trash.
- The last of his volumes of journals, published in 1997, marked the close of his writing career, although a volume of pithy jottings from a notebook appeared posthumously.
- The new edit was released posthumously in 1978.