Both Uses of
bequeath
in
Sense and Sensibility
- But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.†
Chpt 1
- Our respected father, as you well know, bequeathed all the Stanhill effects that remained at Norland (and very valuable they were) to your mother.†
Chpt 33 *
Definition:
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(bequeath) give or pass down -- often upon death in a will