ethical will
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ethical will
First recorded in 1870–75
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Everplans, for example, has a worksheet to help people create an ethical will, a document that communicates their values, life lessons and most important experiences.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
He penned a kind of ethical will — a powerful statement of his moral legacy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
And now more and more are opting for an ethical will, a detailed accounting of the values and beliefs they want to pass on and the cherished memories they don't want forgotten.
From Time Magazine Archive
An ethical will has to do with nonmaterial gifts: the values and life lessons that you wish to leave to others.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the very center of personality is the will; any genuine seeking of God himself, therefore, to commune with him, requires unity with his ethical will.
From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King
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