dedicatory
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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
“Throughout it all, Los Angeles has never broken faith with the Coliseum’s dedicatory purpose,” Hahn wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 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
Smaller luminaries in the same sphere paid him homage in dedicatory epistles.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
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