posthumous
In September he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
"Islands in the Stream" was the title of a posthumously published Ernest Hemingway book.
As is the case for many great authors, Thoreau enjoyed his greatest success posthumously.

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posthumously
His posthumously published study of names is also meant to underpin an early date.
In addition, posthumously appointed male heirs were allowed only partial inheritance rights, even when the deceased couple had no surviving daughters.
Posthumously, he was found to be a compound heterozygote for hereditary haemochromatosis.
It became historical posthumously, as it were, through events that may be separated from it by thousands of years.
The book was written in 1941 and published posthumously.
The presumption is that these would have included kinds whose life style would posthumously produce substantial carbon inhumation and ensuing oil production.
Indeed, these beliefs were recorded in his final academic contribution published posthumously one year after his death.
This revenge was to come posthumously.
This too was published posthumously in 1714.
His seat was awarded posthumously.
To put it differently, the living cannot, and do not, have a right to dispose of their body as they wish posthumously; nor do their relatives have that right.
But this objection does not apply to exemptions from the duty to make one's organs available posthumously, since securing organs to those who need it is not a public good.
There is no revoking that sentence once it is carried out—no recall, no commutation and no pardon, except posthumously.
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