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bequothen

bequothen is the past participle of bequeath.

Meaning of bequeath

Verb

bequeath (third-person singular simple present bequeaths, present participle bequeathing, simple past bequeathed or (obsolete) bequoth, past participle bequeathed or (obsolete) bequoth or (rare) bequethen or (obsolete) bequothen)

  1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
  2. To hand down; to transmit.
    • Ownership of manufacturing workshops is not essential to that job; but BR happen to have been bequeathed a considerable number with a proud history.1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291
  3. To give; to offer; to commit.
    • These young gay men and lesbians were more militant and began to reject advice from the homophile movement to try to "fit into" society, not to make waves, and to rely on professionals and establishment figures to bequeath them social rights.2006 March 26, Leslie Feinberg, “'Gay is good'”, in Workers World

Questions about bequothen

What is bequothen the past participle of?
Bequothen is the past participle of bequeath.

Words near bequothen in the dictionary

  1. bequivers
  2. bequote
  3. bequoted
  4. bequotes
  5. bequoth
  6. bequothen
  7. bequoting
  8. ber
  9. ber Lady
  10. ber month
  11. ber months

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bequothen (page history and authors); bequeath (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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