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Dedication   /dˌɛdəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Dedication

noun
1.
Complete and wholehearted fidelity.
2.
A ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose.
3.
A message that makes a pledge.  Synonym: commitment.
4.
A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something.  Synonym: inscription.
5.
The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action.  Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty.  "They felt no loyalty to a losing team"



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"Dedication" Quotes from Famous Books



... expedition. His friendship for Flinders. His interest in Australian development. Dedication of Flinders' Observations to. His letters concerning Mrs. Flinders' proposed voyage on Investigator. Disapproves of Flinders' conduct towards Decaen. His ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott

... poem in French of a moral cast; and 'Vox Clamantis,' consisting of seven books of Latin elegiacs, and chiefly filled with a metrical account of the insurrections of the Commons in the reign of Richard II. In the dedication of this latter work to Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, Gower speaks of his blindness and his age. He says, 'Hanc epistolam subscriptam corde devoto misit senex et cecus Johannes Gower reverendissimo ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... before. Mrs. Clemens, who loved the story, had insisted that no expense should be spared in its making, and it was, indeed, a handsome volume. It was filled with beautiful pen-and-ink drawings, and the binding was rich. The dedication to its two earliest ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... In the former of these examples, a repetition of the nominative would not be agreeable; in the latter, it would perhaps be an improvement: as, "who art, and who wast, and who shalt be." (I here change the pronoun, because the relative which is not now applied as above.) "This dedication may serve for almost any book, that has been, or shall be published."—Campbell's Rhet. p. 207; Murray's Gram., p. 222. "It ought to be, 'has been, is, or shall be, published.'"—Crombie's Treatise, p. 383. "Truth ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... he did not: in some instances he could not. In one instance he specially desired to have a proof; but it was, as we now know, for the purpose of forwarding it to Lord Chatham. Junius was also anxious to have proofs of the Dedication and Preface, but it is by no means certain that he had them; the evidence tends to show that they were, at Woodfall's request, and to remove from his own shoulders the threatened responsibility, read by Wilkes: and the collected edition was ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 • Various


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