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dedicatory

[ded-i-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈdɛd ɪ kəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /




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Simon Wiesenthal came here in 1977 for a dedicatory ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022

But as is typical with Kurtag’s dedicatory works, he’s able to tip his hat to another composer while sounding like himself.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

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

Come at 6:30 p.m. and take a look at the newly dedicated Immanuel Chapel during its dedicatory year of celebration.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2016

Smaller luminaries in the same sphere paid him homage in dedicatory epistles.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew




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