posthumously

adverb

post·​hu·​mous·​ly ˈpäs-chə-məs-lē 

 also  -tə-,

-tyə-,

-thə-;

päst-ˈhyü-məs-,

ˈpōst-,

-ˈyü-

: after the death of the person in question

a book published posthumously

a medal awarded posthumously

Plath's magnificent Ariel, written mostly during the final months of her life and assembled posthumously by Hughes, takes the notion of confessional poetry to verbal and imaginative extremes.

—Christopher Benfey

Flannery O'Connor united both traditions and is duly, albeit posthumously, celebrated.

—Walker Percy

Examples of posthumously in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 1977: Martin Luther King Jr. was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. —Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 11 July 2025

The final album from legendary outsider folk artist Michael Hurley is set to be released posthumously. —Walden Green, Pitchfork, 8 July 2025

Yotam is the only Israeli hostage whose sperm is known to have been retrieved posthumously, and whose family is lobbying to use it to have a child. —Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 7 July 2025

He was posthumously named grandfather of the country’s construction industry by the Construction Industry Authority of the Philippines, a government agency. —Ian Sayson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1754, in the meaning defined above