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anthumously

anthumously adverb: before death.

Adverb

anthumously (not comparable)

  1. Before death.
    • 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;1957, Albert Guérard, Fossils and Presences, Stanford University Press, page 23
    • […]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.1988, Romanian Review, page 77, column 2

Synonyms of anthumously

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Origin of anthumously

From anthumous + -ly.

Questions about anthumously

What does anthumously mean?
Anthumously means before death.
What part of speech is anthumously?
Anthumously is an adverb.

Words near anthumously in the dictionary

  1. anthrozoologists
  2. anthrozoology
  3. anthryl
  4. anthryls
  5. anthumous
  6. anthumously
  7. anthuria
  8. anthurid
  9. anthurids
  10. anthurium
  11. anthuriums

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