willmaking

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noun

The creation of a legal will.

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Meanings

nounwillmaking (uncountable)

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  1. uncountableThe creation of a legal will.

    Few things show the human character in a more ridiculous light than the circumstance of will-making. It is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition, and we take care to make a good use of it.

    1821–1822, William Hazlitt, “On Will-making”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Warren; Henry Colburn and Co.

Origin

From will + making.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “willmaking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/willmaking.

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