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synonyms for bequest

  • endowment
  • inheritance
  • bestowal
  • devisal
  • devise
  • dower
  • estate
  • gift
  • heritage
  • legacy
  • settlement
  • trust
  • bequeathal
  • bequeathment
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How to use bequest in a sentence

Launched at the start of the 20th century with a bequest from the man who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prizes have often proved explosive.
A NOBEL PURSUIT GONE WRONG?TRACY MORANOCTOBER 11, 2020OZY
This latter, however, includes some 500 volumes of the Herries bequest.
REPORT OF THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN FOR THE YEAR 1924-25GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY (NEW ZEALAND)
Dividends that are declared after a grant or bequest, though earned before, go to the legatee as income.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
A bequest of money securities includes a note secured by mortgage.
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This woman had three sisters, four brothers, and three uncles, who would have shared with her the pauper's bequest.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHE
Few members of the Society, perhaps, are aware, either of the bequest or of its annual payment.
DECLINE OF SCIENCE IN ENGLANDCHARLES BABBAGE
The extension to land of the powers of bequest gave the possessors greater facilities for disposing thereof.
LANDHOLDING IN ENGLANDJOSEPH FISHER
A bequest was made to the evangelical church in Homs by one of her members who died in Egypt.
SILVER CHIMES IN SYRIAW. S. NELSON
Some singular conditions were attached to this bequest by the Archbishop.
ENGLISH BOOK COLLECTORSWILLIAM YOUNGER FLETCHER
It was the abolition of feudal privileges which was really the permanent bequest of the French Revolution.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IXJOHN LORD
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