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Dedication   /dˌɛdəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Dedication

noun
1.
Complete and wholehearted fidelity.
2.
A ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose.
3.
A message that makes a pledge.  Synonym: commitment.
4.
A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something.  Synonym: inscription.
5.
The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action.  Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty.  "They felt no loyalty to a losing team"



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"Dedication" Quotes from Famous Books



... there still remain certain forms and ceremonies to be observed, before the lodge can take its place among the legal and registered lodges of the jurisdiction in which it is situated. These are its consecration, its dedication, its constitution, and the installation of its officers. We shall not fully enter into a description of these various ceremonies, because they are laid down at length in all the Monitors, and are readily accessible to our readers. It will be sufficient if we barely ...
— The Principles of Masonic Law - A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages And Landmarks of - Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey
... Book was the first important work which Browning wrote after the death of his wife, and her memory holds in it a double shrine: at the opening an invocation, at the close a dedication. I quote the invocation: the words are sacred, and nothing remains to be said of them except that they are worthy of the dead ...
— An Introduction to the Study of Browning • Arthur Symons
... the two men, so startlingly unlike physically, but so alike inwardly, shook hands in token of their mutual dedication ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... attune it closer and closer to the eternal harmony. The text of this striving should be, Whatever works thou doest, consecrate them to Brahma. [Footnote: Yadyat karma prakurvita tadbrahmani samarpayet.] That is to say, the soul is to dedicate itself to Brahma through all its activities. This dedication is the song of the soul, in this is its freedom. Joy reigns when all work becomes the path to the union with Brahma; when the soul ceases to return constantly to its own desires; when in it our self- offering ...
— Sadhana - The Realisation of Life • Rabindranath Tagore
... enough to pay the running expenses, so she was going down to Oakwood where she had a cousin who was glad to have her live with him. Now the question was, where the little stranger was to go, whom she had kept with her up till now. She wanted to stay over Sunday and attend the dedication, and on Monday she was going ...
— Erick and Sally • Johanna Spyri


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