Both Uses of
bequeath
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Her affection for him was still the chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her.†
Chpt 25
- He had bequeathed the whole of his, and what had been her, moveable property, to his father: the poor creature was threatened, or coaxed, into that act during her week's absence, when his uncle died.†
Chpt 30 *
Definition:
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(bequeath) give or pass down -- often upon death in a will