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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

... it in position. Having repeated the process with the remainder, he glows with a sense of duty done, and bursts into his farewell song; I often wish that it was his swan-song. He produces in this vocal valediction noises which to the ears of a Futurist composer might seem as Olympian music, but which to my insufficiently educated taste ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various

... much briefer. The course of our evening service was this: My Father prayed, and we all knelt down; then he gave out a hymn and most of us stood up to sing; then he preached for about an hour, while we sat and listened; then a hymn again; then prayer and the valediction. ...

— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse

... But it is again noteworthy that Sophocles has added those 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 ...

— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb

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