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Definition of Dedication

1. Noun. Complete and wholehearted fidelity.

2. Noun. A ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose.

3. Noun. A message that makes a pledge.

4. Noun. A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something.

5. Noun. The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action. "They felt no loyalty to a losing team"

Definition of Dedication

1. n. The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.

Definition of Dedication

1. Noun. The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated. ¹

2. Noun. A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection. ¹

3. Noun. A ceremony marking an official completion or opening. ¹

4. Noun. (legal) The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dedication

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dedication

dedecoration dedecorous dedendum dedendums dedentition dedicant dedicants dedicate dedicated dedicated file server

dedicatedly dedicatee dedicatees dedicates dedicating dedication dedications dedicator dedicatorial dedicatories

dedicators dedicatory dedifferentiate dedifferentiated dedifferentiates dedifferentiating dedifferentiations dedimus dedimuses

Literary usage of Dedication

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The owner of the land must do some act, or suffer some act to be done, from which it can be fairly inferred he intended a dedication to the public. ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"112 (beginning the llth year) to 122—dedication and pages 253 to 650, ... 123 (beginning the 12th, misprinted the llth year) to 132—dedication and pages 551 ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"to make a legal dedication there should be an acceptance thereof by the donee. ... After a dedication to the public has been made and accepted, every member ..."

4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"123 (beginning the 12th, misprinted the llth year) to 132—dedication and ... 16 are. all that Vol 17 fur 1693—Nns. 196 to 206— dedication and pages 579 to ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"Where there was an expresa dedication of highways by the persons platting a town, and an express acceptance of the ваше by the municipal corporation, ..."

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