willmaking

English

Alternative forms
  • will-making

Etymology

will +‎ making

Noun

willmaking (uncountable)

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