bequeathed
Americanadjective
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(of personal property or money) disposed of by a person’s final will.
The college has received a bequeathed gift of $1 million from one of its alumni.
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handed down or passed on.
The more conservative council members see traditional values as the bequeathed virtues of a preferred past.
verb
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Etymology
Origin of bequeathed
First recorded in 1615–25; bequeath ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; bequeath ( def. ) + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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And since houses can be bequeathed tax-free, having a valuable property can help homeowners who want to leave something to the next generation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Most of the work was given by these artists to the poet, whose husband, David Kermani, then bequeathed them to the Morgan between 2019 and 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yet feats of demography are only part of what “Revolver” bequeathed.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Monkhouse bequeathed his joke book collection to his writing partner in his will.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
From the very beginning, the two men wrote in 2004, the city was partly in ruins—intentionally so, because the fallen walls bequeathed on Tiwanaku the authority of the past.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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