dedication
noun
the act of dedicating.
self-dedication
-
a word derived from
dedication.
Example Sentences
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You could feel that the performances were acts of self-dedication, of communion with the dead.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2018
They received it, instead, through Ginzburg, who acted with remarkable courage and self-dedication.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simone Weil's whole life, writes Fiedler, was a series of acts of self-dedication that fizzled into lugubriousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
With one eye on world news and the other on Variety, he is a volatile mixture of show business and politics, of exhibitionistic self-dedication and a seemingly sincere passion to change the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such socks, therefore, indicated scholasticism: worn by females, they would indicate a self-dedication to what for them would be regarded as pedantic studies.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
