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Valedictory

noun

(pl. valedictories)

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

adjective

Of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell. "Valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course" , "A suitable valedictory gesture"

Of a speech expressing leave-taking.

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"Valedictory" Quotes from Famous Books

... your mines!" was Tom's valedictory, and he flung away in mortal anger; anger, too, which, from a Sark point of view, was by no means unjustified. Selling the estate away from the rightful heir was disinheritance, a blow below the belt which most testators ...

— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham

... grammar and spelling has been made by the faculty of Rutgers College. The prize was equally divided between James E. Carr of New York City, and Milton Demarest of Oredell, N.J. Carr is colored. Last year he took the highest honor at the grammar school commencement, delivering the valedictory and winning a prize scholarship. He ...

— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 4, April, 1889 • Various

... Congress met at the very moment the Thirty-ninth closed—on the fourth day of March, 1867. The valedictory words of the presiding officers in both branches were followed immediately by the calling to order of the succeeding bodies. The contest between the President and Congress had grown so violent, the mutual distrust had become so complete, that the latter was unwilling to have its power ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... the psychological point at which to stop. And Edward Bok did. Although his official relation as editor did not terminate until January, 1920, when the number which contained his valedictory editorial was issued, his actual editorship ceased on September 22, 1919. On that day he handed over the reins ...

— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok

... more of Welsh than many Arthurian critics possess. The two first Idylls were privately printed in the summer of 1857, being very rare and much desired of collectors in this embryonic shape. In July Guinevere was begun, in the middle, with Arthur's valedictory address to his erring consort. In autumn Tennyson visited the late Duke of Argyll at Inveraray: he was much attached to the Duke—unlike Professor Huxley. Their love of nature, the Duke being as keen-eyed as the poet was short-sighted, was one tie of union. The Indian ...

— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang

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