Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being bequeathed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being bequeathed.
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- adjective Capable of being
bequeathed .
Etymologies
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bequeath + -able
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Examples
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Take, for instance, the case of a person at the age of Thirty, who, by the payment of 5_l. _ 3s. 4d. to the Britannia Life Assurance Company, can become at once possessed of a bequeathable property, amounting to
The Economist Volume 1, No. 3 Various 1832
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Prior to retirement, workers’ PSS accounts are bequeathable.
Kotlikoff on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Herring-safe,) and from that portion of my life's savings I never hear again, in the form either of capital, interest, bequeathable estate, or dower to my widow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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