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Definition
give or pass down — often upon death in a will
- After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister's daughter, a child of five years old.1 — Childhood (86% in)
- Miss Emily Flint, the little girl to whom I had been bequeathed, was now in her sixteenth year.27 — New Destination For The Children (78% in)
There are no more uses of "bequeath" in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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