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Valedictory   /vˌælədˈɪktəri/   Listen
Valedictory

noun
(pl. valedictories)
1.
A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class).  Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell.  "Valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course" , "A suitable valedictory gesture"
2.
Of a speech expressing leave-taking.



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"Valedictory" Quotes from Famous Books



... more or less was nothing to Poppy. And that one, she felt, had been valedictory. She had kissed, not Ricky-ticky, but his dying Innocence, the boy in him. And she had ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... before it was intended we should sail, a valedictory party came on board: nine of our particular friends equipped with gifts and dressed as for a festival. Hoka, the chief dancer and singer, the greatest dandy of Anaho, and one of the handsomest young fellows in the world-sullen, showy, ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... then with valedictory Shriek veiled off her face and knelt. Full of liquor, full of victory, Chief on chief old vengeance dealt. Backward swung their hurly-burly; None but dead men kept the fight. They that drink their cup too early, Darkness they ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... is in the play; but he too is romanticized through his devotion, to the tender and soulful Agnes. More strongly drawn, if not exactly more lifelike, than any of these, are the sensual old fury, Isabeau, and the English general, Talbot, whose fierce valedictory to this folly-ridden ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas

... for departure arrived, and Chin, with much bowing and ceremonial posturing, having wished his wife and little son adieu, embarked with Wang, taking the equivalent of five thousand dollars[2] in sycee shoes and gold-dust, and amidst valedictory fusillades of fire-crackers, as well as a beating of gongs, the flotilla cast off and ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready


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