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

Douglass, says Sandefur, was not a conservative but a legatee of “the classical liberalism of the American founding.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2018

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

Bequeath is properly applied to a gift by will or legacy; i. e., of personal property; the gift is called a legacy, and he who receives it is called a legatee.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah