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ethical will

American

noun

a document in which the writer shares personal values and beliefs, life stories, advice etc., with the intent of passing them on to future generations.

Etymology

Origin of ethical will

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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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

I can think of no better way to close this article than to recommend that you undertake the composition of an ethical will.

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

The transient and negative nature of all things is transformed in the State into an expression of the ethical will.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

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