Hello, What would be the most appropriate word for this sentence? "The course is dedicated to/devoted to/ destined to/aimed at children and adolescents."
Dedicated has shrugged off a lot of this, in many contexts, and is comfortably used with reference to something that is set aside or reserved for a particular purpose. It is commonly used in …
Dedicated to maintain can be interpreted as a contraction of dedicated in order to maintain, while dedicated to maintaining has only one interpretation.
Pope's theory was that different people had different 'ruling passions', love of praise, money, obstinate love of their country (in Cobham's case - to whom the First Epistle is dedicated), etc.
I would like to thank you for the time you have dedicated to me