Willmaking

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The creation of a legal will. uncountable

    "Few things show the human character in a more ridiculous light than the circumstance of will-making. It is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition, and we take care to make a good use of it."

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"Few things show the human character in a more ridiculous light than the circumstance of will-making. It is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition, and we take care to make a good use of it."

Etymology

From will + making.

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