(n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
(n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
(v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It showed how less than 40% of the cohort born in the 1930s have received or expect to receive a bequest, while for those born in the 1970s the figure is 75%.
(2) Log-linear modeling of inheritance attitudes shows that living with married children, lower educational attainment, and living in a traditionally agricultural area are associated with favoring bequests to eldest sons, as opposed to bequests to all children equally or to whoever takes care of the elderly person.
(3) The bequest paintings are in Twombly's distinctive swirling calligraphic style.
(4) Even Gordon Brown, who has a foot in both camps, was moved to congratulate d'Offay's exemplary 'bequest'.
(5) Similar sums were raised by the National Gallery in London from bequests, gifts and private donors rumoured to include the Getty Foundation.
(6) A bequest to the party worth almost £770,000 was among more than £4.8m received in donations in the fourth quarter of 2013.
(7) The bulk will go to the Save the Children fund in India, with smaller bequests to a science and religion group that is studying the effects of Buddhist practice and to a project to train Buddhist monks as scientists.
(8) Books were regularly ordered from William Strahan in London, and gifts and bequests added still more volumes.
(9) The Pulitzers have been bestowed since 1917, at the bequest of the legendary newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer who established the honour in his will as a means of encouraging publicly-spirited journalism.
(10) But Meles's authoritarianism attracted the frequent censure of human rights groups, and such concerns will inevitably temper assessments of his bequest to Ethiopia .
(11) Beryl Wilkins, a local historian, lives a stone's throw from a former school built in 1624 as a bequest from the lord of the manor, Lord Knyvett – the man, she says, who felt the collar of one Guy Fawkes.
(12) This article describes the two international fellowship programs administered by the International Cooperation Committee of the Medical Library Association: (1) the program supported by the Rockfeller Foundation from 1948 to 1963; (2) the Eileen R. Cunningham program, supported by Mrs. Cunningham's bequest to the association, from 1971 to date.
(13) It’s not exactly new: more than a century ago, in his Gospel of Wealth, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie sought to steer millionaires away from the charitable bequest toward warm-blooded inter vivos giving.
(14) The questionnaire sought information on sex, marital status, age, occupation at the time of bequest and bequest information source, as well as reasons for the bequest, expectations of cadaver use and attitudes towards organ donation.
(15) This study reviews the retirement, precautionary, and bequest motives for saving, then evaluates how marriage dissolution may (a) decrease the family's savings rate, (b) cause shifts in the family's portfolio to assets with lower rates of return, and (c) destroy or deplete existing family assets.
(16) The principal revenues derive from private donations (bequests, card sales etc.
(17) According to Nelson's sister, Mabel, he made a dying bequest to the Thembu regent, David Dalindyebo, giving Nelson into his care.
(18) The results are consistent with modernization theory of gerontology and convergence theory of family sociology in that elderly persons with more "modern" characteristics are more likely to depart from prewar ideals of living with married children and preferring bequests to eldest sons only.
(19) ", the scale of the Georgian bequest is prodigious, and not merely confined to some rather impressive buildings.
(20) The money left by Violet Baker led to reports of a family rift, with her sister-in-law claiming the bequest was made out of "spite".
Bereave
Definition:
(v. t.) To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
(v. t.) To take away from.
(v. t.) To take away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(2) This paper describes the results of a survey on the form and function of hospice bereavement services completed by NHO Provider Member hospices.
(3) Establishing a bereavement program and outlining responsibilities for staff involvement are also addressed.
(4) Subjects antibody and complement functions were inhibited after bereavement.
(5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
(6) This article reviews recent literature on bereavement concerning the typical features of both normal and pathological grief.
(7) Because both bereavement and depression have been associated with impaired immune responses, the authors studied two indicators of immune function, natural killer (NK) cell activity and measures of T cell subpopulations, in 37 women who differed in the magnitude of recent life events.
(8) The purpose of this study was to ascertain depressive symptoms in recently bereaved prepubertal children and compare these symptoms with those of depressed prepubertal children.
(9) No stranger to bereavement – on the last count I had lost 12 close friends and family members by the age of 35 – I’d endured so much loss that I had become blasé about death.
(10) Two bereaved groups of families (one of which received preventive intervention service) and one non-bereaved group were compared in an outcome design and were assessed for indices of illness, psycho-social disturbance, and general quality of life.
(11) In bereaved and severely depressed cancer patients, there is a tendency of an earlier onset of decreased natural killer cell activity and a reduced binding affinity of beta-endorphin to peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(12) Bereavement was mentioned in 28.2% of referrals from medical practitioners yet 43.1% of the patients had been bereaved and used bereavement counselling.
(13) All participants completed a sibling bereavement inventory consisting of 109 scaled items that measured self-concept perceptions and grief reactions.
(14) For a lot of people, leaving politics is a bereavement.” But for the time being, her politics will find expression in her standup, which is quite different from the early days.
(15) The focus of the inquiry was to determine whether attitudes towards death, dying and loss could be influenced by confrontation with factual information on bereavement.
(16) The physiological effects of stress, and the possible relationship to patients and their carers, leads the author to highlight the need for further research, and possible benefit of proactive intervention for the bereaved.
(17) These proportions were unaltered by the issue of a unit medical circular to hospital staff informing them of the problem and requesting more prompt notification.The ability of general practitioners to help bereaved relatives is compromised by the present inadequacies in communication between hospitals and general practice.
(18) The highest relative mortality risk was found immediately after bereavement.
(19) Results indicated that elderly persons with significant clinical depression at the time of a spouse's death were at significant risk for psychological complications during the bereavement process, and survivors of spouses who had committed suicide were even more at risk within the greatest depression group.
(20) 150 bereaved parents, all members of the organisation, of whom 120 (80%) participated voluntarily in the study.