What's the difference between posthumous and postumous?
Posthumous
Definition:
(a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.
(a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.
(a.) Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later this month sees the release in the US of Star Trek Beyond – Yelchin’s most high-profile movie to be released posthumously.
(2) In B neurons posthumous depolarization follows orthodromic responses, and a late posthumous depolarization can be seen in B and C neurons following either ortho- or antidromic stimulation.
(3) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
(4) Posthumously, his worst fears came true – as evidenced by additional tweeted tributes from such notables as Stephen Fry , Gary Lineker , Simon Pegg , and Arlene Phillips , who had lately seen him "walking around Belsize Park".
(5) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
(6) Magnitsky was spared a posthumous jail sentence after a Moscow judge acknowledged that he was already dead.
(7) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(8) The former Belfast IRA commander Brendan Hughes posthumously claimed in taped testimony, for the US university Boston College, that Gerry Adams gave the order for the widow to be shot dead but buried clandestinely in order to avoid any negative publicity for the republican movement.
(9) But like his contemporaries Notorious BIG and Tupac, Dilla's posthumous reputation grew to heights far greater than anything he had achieved while alive.
(10) This gives individuals first authority to control the posthumous disposition of their body parts.
(11) Without that burden, which is considerably lighter in the writings posthumously collected as The Maine Woods and Cape Cod, he comes close to being merely an attentive and eloquent travel writer.
(12) Three patients are also reported whose charts were reviewed posthumously.
(13) The film is another posthumous addition to the Foster Wallace legend.
(14) He was diagnosed with CTE, based on posthumous tests, this month .
(15) But that’s the cruel irony of The Ultimate Defense: it’s always invoked posthumously, when the defendant can’t really defend himself because …well, because he’s dead.
(16) On the occasion of the centenary of Smetana's death they were given an opportunity to examine and assess written and factual posthumous documents from Smetana's estate.
(17) Few tales are more emotive than that of Baby P - the child who posthumously made the headlines in the autumn when his mother and her associates were convicted for battering him to death.
(18) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(19) AW: And shot by the late, great Conrad Hall, who passed away just recently and got the posthumous Oscar for Road to Perdition.
(20) Those are the kinds of questions Trayvon Martin had to ultimately defend himself against posthumously, despite the fact the unarmed 17 year-old was killed by a gun wielding maniac (who’d eventually walk away free and later harm women ).