dedicatory
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Simon Wiesenthal came here in 1977 for a dedicatory ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
One of St. Petersburg’s more flamboyant journalists, Alexander Nekrasov, showed a photo on Instagram of a copy of one of Sokolov’s books, on which the historian had written, “With the dedicatory inscription of a maniac.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2019
The volume is constructed identically to her first, with a dedicatory epistle followed by the translations and an original poem, “The necessitie and benefite of affliction.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019
The Hayes, which will be renamed if and when a donor steps up to buy the rights, held a dedicatory lighting ceremony Monday morning.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2018
It was on the thirty-first of October that there came the summons of which she had spoken in her dedicatory speech.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)