legatee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of legatee
Example Sentences
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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 27, 2019
As a legatee of the civil rights struggles that peaked in the 1960s, he considers the nature of the movement’s achievements in light of present-day racial realities.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2015
The 43 volumes found in Williams's flat on the day he died now belong to his friend and legatee Paul Richardson.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2010
As before mentioned, Harvard College was his residuary legatee, and the property so bequeathed founded the Rumford Professorship in that institution.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
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