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

We only discover it by a remarkable dedicatory sonnet to his translation of Virgil’s “Gnat.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac