Crossword-Solution: POSTHUMOUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Posthumous | a. | Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter. |
| Posthumous | a. | Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition. |
| Posthumous | a. | Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “POSTHUMOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | 1 answer |
| taking place after death | 1 answer |
| AFTER death | 2 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "POSTHUMOUS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
10 +1
New Suggestion for "POSTHUMOUS"
Related word tools
Sentences with POSTHUMOUS (5)
Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.
Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.
One can scarce conceive what humour our ancestors found in this species of gibberish; but “I warrant it proved an excuse for the glass.”] 5 (return) [ The author had revised this posthumous work of Mr Strutt.
And all for what? To be tantalized with Images of sensual enjoyment which must be renounced if one would approximate a God, who according to the Doctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, and into whose Universe one expects unconsciously to merge after Death, without hope of any posthumous Beatitude in another world to compensate for all one's self- denial in this.
Such persons may hope to win a posthumous esteem in the library, but it is at the bleak cost of making life a wistful transaction with foreigners.
Quotes with POSTHUMOUS (3)
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation — and yours too — to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene wo…
She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.