willmaking

English

Alternative forms

• will-making

Etymology

From 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, volume (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.