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UK
/vˌælɪdˈɪkʃən/
]
NOUN
- a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
- the act of saying farewell
How To Use valediction In A Sentence
- In 1947 he made a wonderful picture which, though he continued to photograph for many more years, we might read as a valediction to his younger, splenetic self.
- He had just heard the huntmaster mark the occasion with a sombre valediction, but pledge to continue the tradition of hunting.
- Roth gives the best lines in valediction to a pro-war speechmaker, the unpolished Republican pol Albin Lentz, who is the president of Winesburg College. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
- Is this transformation meant to be valediction or a malediction?
- Instead, more than two years after it was recorded, the album turns out to be their valediction.
- As far as I can tell, codes for friendly valediction seem to be a lot looser in the US.
- I may, however, not be the most reliable commentator on her valediction, having previously been largely unaware of Georgie's apparently impressive body of work. Georgie Thompson says goodbye on Sky Sports … well, sort of | Martin Kelner
- It also timeously destroys Mr. Speaker Martin's self-serving and pompous valediction in which he sought to claim that if MPs had adopted proposals made last year, all would have been well, the implication being that he had been at the forefront of such changes and had been thwarted by the House. Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself
- She will give a touching valediction at graduation.
- We then leap forward to Esther's valediction, written seven years later.