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Definition of Dedicatees
1. dedicatee [n] - See also: dedicatee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dedicatees
Literary usage of Dedicatees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Haydn by James Cuthbert Hadden (1902)
"... L'Isola Disabitata"—A Love Episode—Correspondence with Artaria and Forster—Royal
dedicatees—The " Seven Words "—The "Toy "and "Farewell" Symphonies. ..."
2. Studies in English Drama: First Series by Allison Gaw, John Linton Carver (1917)
"But such imaginative flights are exceedingly rare, More frequently, institutions
are dedicatees: the Inns of Court, the Universities of Oxford and ..."
3. A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1899)
"His occasional verses are few, and well chosen as to dedicatees : to majesty,
... His dedicatees are the small country gentry, that sound, wholesome stock ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... with names of dedicatees and publishers, arrangements, etc. The 2nd edition,
1868, is much enlarged (220 pages) by the addition of many interesting ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1815)
"... his dedications in altars, wings, and columns; ih& names of his numerous
dedicatees laboriously' ..."
6. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... more than eighty dedicatees and noble patrons.4 Jonson's friends, too, were
legion, as his poems disclose, with upwards of sixty poets, authors, actors, ..."
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