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Posthumously   Listen
adverb
Posthumously  adv.  In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Posthumously" Quotes from Famous Books



... artillery), showed ghastly mutilation. In getting up our glowing anticipation of the day's programme, we had left these items out of the account, and we mournfully recognized the fact, that many who seek military distinction, will obtain it posthumously, if they get it at all. The actual sight of a corpse immensely chills an abstract love of glory. The impression soon wears off, however, and the dead are very little noticed. Toward ten or eleven o'clock we wandered away from ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke

... posthumously printed stories of David Graham Phillips and Jack London have been written by hacks hired by the magazine editors ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... also to travel much, and he gave most of his fortune to establish a fund to provide penniless girls with marriage portions. He had enough imagination to be the close friend both of Lorenzo de' Medici and Savonarola. Savonarola clothed his dead body in Dominican robes and made him posthumously one of the order which for some time before his death he had desired to join. He died in 1494 at the early age of ...
— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas

... force could ever hope to. They were always the last to leave an abandoned position. If Earth had been giving medals to members of her forces in the war, every man in the Corps would have had the Medal of Honor two and three times over. Posthumously. I don't believe there were ten of them left alive when Cope was shot. Cope was one of them. They were a kind of human being neither MacReidie nor ...
— The Stoker and the Stars • Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry)

... fighting men in the San Gregorio, at any rate," her father continued. "Two Medal-of-Honor men came out of it. Old Don Miguel Farrel's boy was awarded one posthumously. I was in El Toro the day the commanding general of the Western Department came down from San Francisco and pinned the medal on old Don Miguel's breast. The old fellow rode in on his son's horse, and when the little ceremony was over, he mounted and ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne



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