Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of bequeathing; a bequest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

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  • noun The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

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Examples

  • There is somewhat of a competition among the children regarding his bequeathment.

    Bits and Pieces: Christmas edition : The Archive 2008

  • First it was the bequeathment of fine footwear by Receptionista, to me.

    weapons of massdistraction › A Gigantic Nuclear Furnace 2004

  • When lawyers for the heirs to the property applied for the interdict, they said their clients became aware of their bequeathment in December 1997, when empowerment group Umnonto we

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • 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 Henry A. Murray

  • 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 James Montgomery Flagg 1903

  • The bequeathment of Stephen Girard, the wealthy American merchant, was of a different character.

    Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858

  • 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 Susanna Moodie 1844

  • 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 Jane Porter 1813

  • She saw the progress of their work in the altered tone of the Bench, the Bar and the Press to favor woman's rights; the donation of $5,000 to the cause by a wealthy merchant of Boston; the bequeathment of $400,000 by a millionaire of Poughkeepsie to found a Woman's College equal to Yale or Harvard; the passage of the recent act by the New-York Legislature, securing rights of property to woman; the increasing liberality of literary institutions; the school of design for woman, and the liberality of Peter Cooper in granting the use of this Hall for their meetings.

    Woman's Rights Convention Staff 1860

  • {It is this bequeathment that has long given me reason to believe my family surname simply means we are from a long line of

    MUSHY'S MOOCHINGS 2009

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