dedicatory

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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

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,” Hahn wrote, “Los Angeles has never broken faith with the Coliseum’s dedicatory purpose. We’ve never messed with its name, which resides in the National Register of Historic Places. Until now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2019

It is dedicated to Charles I; and there is also an epistle dedicatory to Henry, son and heir of Thomas, earl of Arundel, earl-marshal, in which Yorke very candidly avows his lack of erudition.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony