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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bequeaths.

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Examples

  • Shakespeare, William, as biographer's nightmare, 129; as control freak, 129; as terrible husband, 129-130; as bed bequeather, 130; as critical mirror, 131; erotic mysteries of, 132; suspiciously late works of, 188

    Who's Who 2004

  • Shakespeare, William, as biographer's nightmare, 129; as control freak, 129; as terrible husband, 129-130; as bed bequeather, 130; as critical mirror, 131; erotic mysteries of, 132; suspiciously late works of, 188

    Who's Who 2004

  • Shakespeare, William, as biographer's nightmare, 129; as control freak, 129; as terrible husband, 129-130; as bed bequeather, 130; as critical mirror, 131; erotic mysteries of, 132; suspiciously late works of, 188

    Who's Who 2004

  • My father was a saver of string and pencil stubs and a bequeather of fantastic Swedish Lutheran prejudices.

    There's one really endearing detail Jenny Davidson 2005

  • My father was a saver of string and pencil stubs and a bequeather of fantastic Swedish Lutheran prejudices.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • "Hmmm ... yes, that of course, but" Bess bent back over the panel that she and Mary had designed in memory of Sir William, the bequeather of Chatsworth.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • "Hmmm ... yes, that of course, but" Bess bent back over the panel that she and Mary had designed in memory of Sir William, the bequeather of Chatsworth.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Very seldom is there such a departure from tradition as making the father bequeather of the poet's sensitiveness.

    The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

  • The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld,

    A Broadway Pageant 1900

  • The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the

    Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

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