testamentation

English

Etymology

From testament +‎ -ation.

Noun

testamentation (uncountable)

1. The act or power of giving by testament, or will.
   • 1760-1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland

     By this law the right of testamentation was taken away , which the inferior tenures had always enjoyed ; and all tenures from the 27th Hen. VIII.

References

• “testamentation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.