valediction
IPA: væɫʌdˈɪkʃʌn
noun
- A speech made when leaving or parting company.
- The act of parting company.
- A word or phrase (such as adieu or farewell) said upon leaving.
- A word or phrase used to end a letter or message.
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Examples of "valediction" in Sentences
- The valediction of Abel Kirschke is one of the two or three funniest stories I have.
- 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.
- The studio thought it would be a wonderful thing if the animators who had worked on the original came back for a kind of valediction, and worked on the new one.
- 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.
- The gist of the story is that using big words like "valediction" (or "Ahmadinejad") can sometimes con an audience into thinking things make sense when in fact they don't.
- "You obviously don't know what you're talking about, brother", he added in valediction, which is somewhat ironic, as Mr Hjelms was trying to explain how he knew what he was talking about.
- Fry said in a "valediction" on his website www. stephenfry.com that he intends to disconnect himself from his multimedia chatter on Twitter, blogs and websites to write a follow-up to his autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot."
- I tried my best to talk Sarah into coming to N. to ride out the valediction of Abel Kirschke with me, but she'd met him once before already, and not only had he rubbed her the wrong way, but she was furthermore morally opposed to the way he lived his life.
- 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.
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