anthumously
English
Etymology
From anthumous + -ly.
Adverb
anthumously (not comparable)
- Before death.
- 1957, Albert Guérard, Fossils and Presences, Stanford University Press, page 23:
- And the social problem will not worry us, so long as millionaires are creators rather than wasters; so long as they turn into philanthropists anthumously; so long as the son of a blacksmith may become wealthy, and President;
- 1988, Romanian Review, page 77, column 2:
- […] of whom are B. P. Hasdeu, Mihai Eminescu, Ion Luca Caragiale – with a thorough and telling pleading on the decisive impact of Eminescu’s poetry (anthumously and posthumously published) with its Romantic-type inherent sublimity.
- 2005, “Fantasy Landscape”, in Dorrit Cohn, transl., Essays in Aesthetics (Stages; volume 20), translation of original by Gérard Genette, →ISBN, page 126:
- I will thus henceforth call “poetic collection” a collection of poems, in verse or in prose, published or at least created by one, or exceptionally more than one, poet, in principle before his death; a collection published posthumously but created anthumously, such as Vigny’s Destinées, strictly corresponds to this definition;
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Synonyms
- antemortem
- prehumously
- premortem
Antonyms
- posthumously
- post mortem