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- adjective rare See
posthumous .
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- adjective Archaic form of
posthumous .
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Examples
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The "very atheist" poster above is simply coasting on Christian fumes, much to Nietzsche's presumably postumous dismay.
February 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Well, I would be very interesting if Ledger did in fact win a postumous award.
2009 Oscar odds and predictions: Who will win! » Scene-Stealers 2009
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These pieces were later collected in the postumous work A Descoberta do mundo (The Discovery of the World, 1984).
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His postumous Bronze Star was earned 8 days before his 14 month tour ended.
Think Progress » Pelosi: Congress Will Not Fund Escalation If Bush Does Not Justify It 2007
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The PM's website have rejected a petition to grant a postumous knighthood to Bob Paisley the former Liverpool mnager and they have incuded the following comment:
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I believe a letter home to his family from the war included in the late Kurt Vonnegut's postumous collection, "Armageddon in Retrospect," provides clues to how delousing became
Dissident Voice 2009
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For his heroism, he would win a postumous Congressional Medal of Honor.
Grand Old Partisan 2009
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Frank Herbert’s Dune books (but none of the postumous stuff),
Discussion: Favorite Book Series : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2005
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