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Inheritance vs Bestowal - What's the difference?

inheritance | bestowal | Synonyms |

Inheritance is a synonym of bestowal.


As nouns the difference between inheritance and bestowal

is that inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death while bestowal is the act of bestowing.

inheritance

English

(wikipedia inheritance)

Alternative forms

* enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)

Noun

  • The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  • (lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  • (lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  • In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

    • Related terms

    * inherit * inheritable * inheritor * preheritance

    References

    * (EtymOnLine)

    bestowal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of bestowing