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Salutation

noun
1.
An act of honor or courteous recognition.  Synonym: salute.
2.
(usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting).  Synonym: greeting.
3.
Word of greeting used to begin a letter.





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"Salutation" Quotes from Famous Books



... light; they wear rich and precious crowns, as it is reasonable they should. I see them always under the same forms, and have never found in their discourse any discrepancies. I know how to distinguish one from the other, and distinguish them as well by the sound of their voices as by their salutation. They come often without my calling upon them. But when they do not come, I pray to the Lord that he will send them to me; and never have I needed them ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various
... nightly saying of the "Ave Maria" by a little Papist relative. This was not on religious grounds; it was because of "blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus," in the prayer. The little Papist had been taught to repeat the salutation of the Angel Gabriel in Latin, so, at bedtime, he changed to "Benedictus fructus ventris tui" and the careful lady thought ...
— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan
... the open the distant figure flung up one arm in salutation and came racing over the drifts, her ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... the ardent young man, approached her with a passionate salutation, she stepped shyly back and pushed ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach
... as frightful as if she had pointed out a splendid-limbed man and said: "That man will be dead in five minutes." That, indeed, was what she said of Halderschrodt.... The man had saluted her, going to his death; the austere inclination that I had seen had been the salutation of such a man. ...
— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad


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