valedictory

IPA: væɫʌdˈɪktɝi

An address given on an occasion of bidding farewell or parting company.
(specifically, Canada, US) A speech given by a valedictorian at a commencement or graduation ceremony.

Of or pertaining to a valediction (“an act of parting company; a speech made when parting company”); designed for or suitable to an occasion of bidding farewell or parting company.
(Canada, US) Of or pertaining to a valedictorian (“the individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades”).

Examples of "valedictory" in Sentences

This is what you'll really see in the 'valedictory' speech.
We'll have a "valedictory" session for the Speaker after PMQs.
He was there to give what he called his valedictory address, hosted by GWU's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.
She was haranguing her warriors in an animated manner, and delivering what, in civilized life, would be called her valedictory address.
The president’s valedictory is also likely to differ significantly from the final address of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, who in 2001 celebrated the economic successes of his administration.
George Washington, pilloried by the opposition, could not wait to leave the presidency, drafting a "valedictory" near the end of his first term and very begrudgingly putting it in the drawer until the end of his second.
In what he described as a valedictory address - he steps down as South African president next year - Mandela said OAU states had to build on the decisions they had taken about an African economic community, as well as the regional economic units they had formed on the continent.
This valedictory was a prophetic note in the line of her future expression: for it gave a graphic illustration of the art of teaching geography, to the consideration of which she had been led by Miss Crocker's logical, suggestive, and masterly presentation of the subject in the school course.