dedicatee

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The man responsible for the republication is the dedicatee, who, having mysteriously demanded from me back numbers of the New Age_, sat in my house one Sunday afternoon and in four hours read through the entire series.

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  1. noun One to whom something, such as a literary work, is dedicated.

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  • It takes place round about the Caspian Sea, and its protagonists—who rather resemble Fritz Leiber's Fahfrd and the Gray Mouser, though the book's dedicatee is Michael Moorcock, and his array of haunted anti-heroes suffuses Chabon's duo in waves of sagacious embonpoint—find themselves embroiled in the succession to the throne of Khazaria. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • There are two choirs here, the YL Male Voice Choir (Helsinki University Choir), one of the greatest in the world and also the dedicatee of just about everything Sibelius wrote for it. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • Steve Reich's electronic string quartet Different Trains and Harrison Birtwistle's Antiphonies, and the dedicatee of works by Cage, Feldman, Berio and dozens more. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • The dedicatee, maestro Ashkenazy, guided his players through what appeared to be a well-rehearsed and warmly committed performance.
  • Rachel Barton Pine: My new album is the Beethoven violin concerto, paired with the world premiere recording of the violin concerto by Franz Clement, who was Beethoven's dedicatee. —  Violinist.com
 

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