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Valediction

noun

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

The act of saying farewell.

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"Valediction" Quotes from Famous Books

... Andre-Louis' eyelids played him false by flickering. "But if you linger, look out for the gardes-champetres of the Marquis. You'll find them not at all accommodating. Well, well—a good appetite to you, monsieur," said he, in valediction. ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... desolation, was one of great personal discomfort. It rained hard, so that a small stream of water, which descended from the roof of the coach as I entered it, had insinuated itself between one of the flannel waistcoats, which formed so important an item in the maternal valediction, and my skin, whence, endeavouring to carry out what a logician would call the "law of its being," by finding its own level, it placed me in the undesirable position of an involuntary disciple of the cold-water cure taking a "sitz-bad". As to my thoughts, the reader ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... grand note he can begin and end [155] chapter or paragraph! "When the funeral pyre was out, and the last valediction over:" "And a large part of the earth is still in the urn unto us." Dealing with a very vague range of feelings, it is his skill to associate them to very definite objects. Like the Soul, in Blake's design, "exploring the recesses of the tomb," he carries a light, the light of the poetic ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

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