Bequest

//bɪˈkwɛst//

"Bequest" in a Sentence (5 examples)

His generous bequest enabled the church to continue funding the youth group.

Did the bequest cover the cost of recruiting a professor?

He left a large bequest to the Mozilla Foundation.

2006 SHERRY CLODMAN & EDWARD H. PEARCE: Well Advised. p.25 Civil Sector Press →ISBN A specific bequest is the gift of a specific sum of money, or the gift of a specific property or a particular asset. Perhaps the most common type of bequest, and undoubtedly the most certain, it is the first to be paid after the settlement of estate debts.

Yet some odor of religion is still lingering here, the bequest of pious souls, who had grace to enjoy a foretaste of immortal life.

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