Both Uses
bequeath
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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- 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.†
Chpt 1 *bequeathed = give or pass down
- Miss Emily Flint, the little girl to whom I had been bequeathed, was now in her sixteenth year.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(bequeath) give or pass down -- often upon death in a will
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)