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The act of saying farewell
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valediction
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Valediction is a farewell, especially the wording used to close a letter. Valediction may also refer to: Valediction (film) Valediction (novel) , 1984 novel by Robert B.Parker Locked In (film) , a film with the production title Valediction Operation Valediction ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a farewell, a bidding farewell," 1610s, from past participle stem of Latin valedicere "bid farewell, take leave," from vale "farewell!," second person singular imperative of valere "be well, be strong" (see valiant ) + dicere "to say" (see diction ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A speech made when leaving or parting company. 2 The act of parting company. 3 A word or phrase (such as adieu or farewell) said upon leaving. 4 A word or phrase used to end a letter or message.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Valediction \Val`e*dic"tion\, n. [L., valedicere, valedictum, to say farewell; vale farewell (imperative of valere to be strong or well) + dicere to say. See Valiant , Diction .] A farewell; a bidding farewell. --Donne.
Usage examples of valediction.
A man of letters needed at least a few lines of verse as a suitable valediction, but Jessica could not remember any.
Closing the door behind him, Krakhno flicked his intense gaze around the room in an unspoken valediction, from the second table laden with crudely published literature to the desk-sized copier that had printed it to the locked cupboard where their tiny arms cache was stacked.
He cries out an obscene valediction, and with that he rights his big bag and flops off into the street.
He had worked long and hard on his valediction, intending to exit from the consular stage with a speech the like of which Rome had never heard.
He then gave his valediction, about which he had thought for days yet not known what to say.
Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality.
Musings and posturings, ambles and rambles, bringings-to-mind, by-the-ways, diaphanies and epiphanies, reveries, valedictions and celebrations, all in a style that had been washed away by the aci4 rain.
But whether that mournfull burthen, and treble calling out after Absalom, had any reference unto the last conclamation, and triple valediction, used by other Nations, we hold but a wavering conjecture.
I was reminded, as Sadie talked of ceremonies and valedictions, of the occasions early in my time in London when I'd watched the great iron freighters being tugged in to their berths at Tidesmeet.