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