dedication

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  Dedication to Ann Waters Denslow
• WordNet 3.6
  • n dedication the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action "his long commitment to public service","they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
  • n dedication complete and wholehearted fidelity
  • n dedication a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something
  • n dedication a message that makes a pledge
  • n dedication a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose
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Dedication of Savile's St. Chrysostom. Eton, 1610

Dedication Appearing on Globe of Jodocus Hondius, 1600

• Interesting fact: The 1st US Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio in 1836.
• • Dedication A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use.
  • Dedication An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.
  • Dedication 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.
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• Interesting fact: There is a 6-foot tall stone monument dedicated to the cartoon character Popeye in Crystal City, TX. .
• • n dedication The act of consecrating to a deity or to a sacred use with appropriate solemnities; a solemn appropriation or setting apart: as, the dedication of a church.
  • n dedication The act of devoting with solemnity or earnestness of feeling to any purpose.
  • n dedication The act of inscribing or addressing a literary or an artistic work to a patron, friend, or public character.
  • n dedication An address prefixed to a literary or musical composition, inscribed to a patron, as a means of recommending the work to his protection and favor, or, as now usually, to a private friend or to a public character, as a mark of affection or respect.
  • n dedication In law, a voluntary surrender or abandonment of property by the owner to public use, as of land, by consenting to the making of a highway upon it, or of an invention, by neglect to patent, it.
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• Interesting fact: Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.
• • Dedication the act of dedicating: an address to a patron, prefixed to a book
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• Roger Staubach

  

  “Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
• Roger Staubach

  

  “Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
• Ruth Benedict

  

  “A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.”
• Merlin Olsen

  

  “The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.”
• Tom Seaver

  

  “The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.”
• Jesse Owens

  

  “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

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