All 6 Uses
legacy
in
Asylum, by Madeleine Roux
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- Legally, morally, sympathy aside, I will pull madness out by its black root, and I will leave a legacy no man, however sanctimonious, can fault.†
p. 118.2
- All men seek immortality in their own way, either through a legacy of children carrying their name and genetic material, through architecture, through science, and this now is simply my search for a legacy like no other.†
p. 200.8
- All men seek immortality in their own way, either through a legacy of children carrying their name and genetic material, through architecture, through science, and this now is simply my search for a legacy like no other.†
p. 200.9
- In order to create a legacy for his name.†
p. 202.1
- This was a minor setback, he'd give them that, but his work would live on. His legacy. His life.
p. 296.9 *legacy = something left behind after one is gone
- But his legacy had lived on, and now Warden Crawford was back where he belonged.†
p. 297.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(legacy) coming from the past or left to the futurein various senses including:
- in law -- a gift given through a will -- "She left a legacy of $10,000 to her niece."
- of a situation -- resulting from the past -- "Today's debt problem is a legacy of profligate spending by prior administrations."
- of culture -- a practice passed from one generation to the next -- "The city has along legacy of bribes and corruption."
- of technology -- something that still uses old technology -- "We're using a legacy software that only the old-timers know how to update."
- of a member or potential member of an organization -- the child of a previous member -- "She is a legacy candidate."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)