vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of leaving by will; fig. handing down to posterity; also concr. a legacy, bequest.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 131. The bequeathing of that hord of sprightfulness.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. 491. The power of bequeathing.
1855. Browning, Saul Men & Wom., II. 123. His rents, the successive bequeathings of ages untold.
