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Valediction

noun
1.
A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class).  Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration.
2.
The act of saying farewell.





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"Valediction" Quotes from Famous Books



... earth should he do in the meantime? He seemed to have done all that there was for him to do. His executors would do the rest. He had no farewell-letters to write. He had no friends with whom he was on terms of valediction. There was nothing at all for him to do. He stared blankly out of the window, at the greyness and blackness of the sky. What a day! What a climate! Why did any sane person live in England? ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... old and infirm, and in this world I shall not see him again." I was right; I never did see him again, nor never shall. He looked at me complacently, smiled good-naturedly, returned my salutation (or rather my valediction), and we parted (though he knew it not) forever. I could not reverence him intellectually, but he had been uniformly kind to me, and had allowed me many indulgences, and I grieved at the thought of the mortification I ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb
... touches which distinguish his own firm and delicate handiwork. There is nothing of melodrama, nothing inconsequent, nothing exaggerated. It is the dramatist's preparation for his own end. Shakespeare put his valediction into the mouth of Prospero; Sophocles entrusted his to his greatest creation Oedipus. Like him, he was fain to depart, for the gods called. Our last sight of him is of one beckoning us to follow him to the place where calm is to be found; to find it we must use not the eyes of the body, ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb
... afterwards Sir John, Stoddart, then resident as judge in the Mediterranean island. By 12th March, as we gather from the Southey correspondence, the change of arrangements had been made. Two days afterwards he receives a letter of valediction from his "old friend and brother" at Greta Hall, and on 2d April 1804, he sailed from England in the Speedwell, dropping anchor sixteen ...
— English Men of Letters: Coleridge • H. D. Traill


Words linked to "Valediction" :   farewell, oratory, leave, parting, leave-taking


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