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POSTHUMOUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 197 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POSTHUMOUS  , that which appears or is produced after the author or creator, and thus applied to a

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literary
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work or work of
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art published or produced after its author's
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death, or especially to a
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child
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born- after the death of its
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father . The Latin postumus, latest, last, from which the word is derived, is formed from
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post, after, but it was in
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Late Latin connected with humare, to
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place in the ground (humus), to
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bury .

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