bequeathment

• The bequeathment of Stephen Girard, the wealthy American merchant, was of a different character. —  Thrift
• But this vivid approach to a sincere repentance was soon obliterated by the consideration that, the Countess Sobieski having had a prior claim to my name, such restitution on my part must have illegitimatized my darling Pembroke, his dying mother's fondest bequeathment to a father's arms. —  Thaddeus of Warsaw
• It was the strong, cool determination inherited from Thomas Rose that held Flavia equal to the demands of her mother's bequeathment of reticent pride. —  From the Car Behind
• He must inform her of his father's unjust bequeathment of all his property to his brother, and of his own determination to seek his fortune in the —  Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
• Established in 1636, by a vote of 400l., it obtained the name of Harvard, from the bequeathment by a reverend gentleman of that name, A.D. 1638, of the sum of 780l. and 300 volumes. —  Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms