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Example sentences for "dedication"

Lexicographically close words:
dedicat; dedicate; dedicated; dedicates; dedicating; dedications; dedicator; dedicatory; dedimus; dedis
  1. One of the highest order of the Christian ministry was employed, and similar devotions were performed at the dedication of one of the royal "great ships," as we should find in the consecration of a cathedral.

  2. Footnote 92: The Dedication of the Ypodigma Neustriæ claims for itself a place in this work; and to no part can it be more appropriately appended than to this, in which modern charges strongly contrasted with his view are examined.

  3. May 1912 Talk at Dedication of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár Grounds Wilmette, Illinois Notes by Joseph H.

  4. Dedication to the Church of St. Mercurius in old Cairo, where it now rests.

  5. Dedication to monastery of St. Antony in the eastern desert; now in the library of the Patriarch in Cairo, numbered 12 and 14.

  6. Spring" was published next year, with a dedication to the Countess of Hertford, whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses and assist her studies.

  7. If Young thought the dedication contained only the praise of truth, he should not have omitted it in his works.

  8. The dedication of it to the Countess of Salisbury does not appear in his own edition.

  9. He was, as Pope says, "fed with dedications;" for Tickell affirms that no dedication was unrewarded.

  10. For this he was attacked by Warburton, and defended by Dyson; Warburton afterwards reprinted his remarks at the end of his dedication to the Freethinkers.

  11. Of the dedication the complexion is clearly political.

  12. That he ever had such a patron as Wharton, Young took all the pains in his power to conceal from the world, by excluding this dedication from his works.

  13. I was shocked beyond measure when I failed to find you in your accastomed seat on the Sunday of the dedication of the Temple.

  14. The sensation of the completion of the Temple and the stir made by its dedication had increased Gordon's fame, and the story of her sorrow had been repeated again and again.

  15. The dedication programme began on Monday, lasting through an entire week, day and night, and culminated on Sunday with Gordon's address at eleven o'clock.

  16. The essential manliness of Browning is evident in the famous dedication to the French critic Milsand, who was among his early admirers.

  17. I will read your verses with pleasure, and may venture to tell you beforehand that the Princess will esteem your dedication as a great distinction, and will be proud to read her name in print on any work of yours.

  18. The wooing and consent would be expressed in the form of the dedication of the poem and its acceptance.

  19. Gall, and I owe to the intimacy which subsisted between us the honour he conferred on me by the dedication of one of his works.

  20. Sometimes, when the ceremony of dedication is finished, the hide is cut into small strips, and the members of the family wear parts of it tied over the head, or across the forehead, when they are in full dress.

  21. Address at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

  22. Remarks at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Nov.

  23. The dedication of this church is as unusual.

  24. The dedication of St. Botolph's Church notifies us that we are now entering Cambridge proper.

  25. Under her dedication a Benedictine nunnery was founded here at the beginning of the eleventh century.

  26. The dedication of the church is no less unique, "St. Mary and the Sacred Host.

  27. The dedication to this play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published.

  28. In his dedication to the earl of Salisbury he mentions "the lowness of fortune to which he has voluntarily reduced himself, and of which he has no reason to be ashamed.

  29. He was now weak with a lingering consumption, and not able to attend the rehearsal; yet was so vigorous in his faculties, that only ten days before his death he wrote the dedication to his patron lord Cowper.

  30. His dedication was, therefore, an instance of servile absurdity, to be exceeded only by Joshua Barnes's dedication of a Greek Anacreon to the duke.

  31. Of the king's condescension he has given an account in the dedication of his works.

  32. At his return he published his travels, with a dedication to lord Somers.

  33. Dryden could not now repress those emotions, which he called indignation, and others jealousy; but wrote upon the play and the dedication such criticism as malignant impatience could pour out in haste.

  34. It was printed with a dedication in verse, to Dr.

  35. He prefixed a very ample preface, in the form of a dedication to lord Dorset; and there gives an account of the design which he had once formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince.

  36. Dryden, in his dedication to the earl of Orrery, had defended dramatick rhyme; and Howard, in the preface to a collection of plays, had censured his opinion.

  37. In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax, there is a very elegant character of Charles, and a pleasing account of his latter life.

  38. The dedication of the Roman capital fell upon this day, about the full moon of the Greek month Matagitnion.

  39. The encenia, or dedication of the incomparable theatre at Oxford, endowed and founded 1664, by archbishop Selden.

  40. Dedication of the cathedral church of St. Paul's, at London.

  41. Dedication of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, on the 7th of Elul, in the 21st year of Artaxerxes.

  42. And this conversion was in her mind nothing less than the turning aside from all worldly pursuits, and the entire dedication of time and self to religious avocations.

  43. From the dedication of the Six Quartets to Haydn in 1785.

  44. Gluck in his dedication of "Alceste" to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

  45. There are also ruins of an old church, the dedication of which, like the island chapel, is ascribed to one St Begnet, perhaps a diminutive form of Bega, but the identity is not clear.

  46. It is chiefly interesting now for its fraternal dedication to Edward Lytton Bulwer, then a youth of nineteen.

  47. In the dedication to Charles lord Hallifax, she draws the characters of several of the most eminent of her predecessors in tragic poetry, with great judgment and precision.

  48. His dedication was therefore an instance of servile absurdity, to be exceeded only by Joshua Barnes's dedication of a Greek Anacreon to the Duke.

  49. At his return he published his Travels, with a dedication to Lord Somers.

  50. The dedication is addressed to the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whom he flatters without reserve, and, to confess the truth, with very little art.

  51. Not so my more successful brethren the moderns, who will by no means let slip a preface or dedication without some notable distinguishing stroke to surprise the reader at the entry, and kindle a wonderful expectation of what is to ensue.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dedication" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; acknowledgment; allegiance; altruism; application; ardor; back; beatification; beatitude; bibliography; blessing; burden; business; catchword; charge; colophon; commitment; consecration; constancy; contents; decision; dedication; deference; determination; devotion; earnestness; errata; ethics; exaltation; faith; fanaticism; fealty; fervor; fidelity; fire; flyleaf; folio; glorification; grace; head; heat; homage; humility; imperative; imprint; index; inscription; intensity; intentness; introduction; justification; leaf; loyalty; makeup; mission; modesty; morale; obligation; obstinacy; onus; ordination; page; passion; perseverance; persistence; piety; place; preface; purification; purpose; recto; relentlessness; resolution; resolve; respect; sacrifice; sainthood; sanctity; sectarian; selflessness; seriousness; signature; sincerity; spirit; subtitle; tail; tenacity; text; title; vehemence; verso; warmth; will