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noun

a disposition in a will.

a legacy: A small bequest allowed her to live independently.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English biqueste, biquyste, equivalent to bi- be- + quiste will, bequest, Old English -cwis(se) (with excrescent t, as in behest), noun derivative of cwethan to say; on the model of bequethen bequeath

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bequest (bɪˈkwɛst)

—n
1.	a. the act of bequeathing
	b. something that is bequeathed
2.	law devise Compare devise a gift of property by will, esp personal property

[C14: be- + Old English -cwiss degree; see bequeath]

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Word Origin & History

bequest

c.1300, "act of bequeathing," from be- + *cwis, *cwiss "saying" (related to quoth; from P.Gmc. *kwessiz), with excrescent -t. Meaning "that which is bequeathed" is recorded from late 15c

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bequest

in law, generally a gift of property by will or testament. The term is used to denote the disposition of either personal or real property in the event of death.

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Example sentences

Moneys received by gift or bequest and designated for such purposes must also

be kept in a trust fund and used for such purposes.

But when the bequest arrives and steps out of the box, it is a parrot.

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bequest on videotape.

The bequest is made to three families: and the only matter in dispute is,

whether one of the third shares should be divided.

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"When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced, then the shame of it goes too deep for reasoning. No, it was not our fault that our children had to learn such hardship, had to forego so much that we, the older ones, had inherited. Our fault it was not; but we felt that it was. We were learning, we old ones, that in times when a species, a race, is under threat, drives and necessities built into the very substance of our flesh speak out in ways that we need never have known about if extremities had not come to squeeze these truths out of us. An older, a passing, generation needs to hand on goodness, something fine and high—even if it is only in potential—to their children. And if there isn't this bequest to put into their hands, then there is a bitterness and a pain that makes it hard to look into young eyes, young faces."

-Doris Lessing

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