Definitions

valediction

[val-i-dik-shuhn] / ˌvæl ɪˈdɪk ʃən /

NOUN

parting

Synonyms

STRONG

adieu bisection break breaking breakup crossroads departure detachment divergence division farewell going goodbye leave-taking partition rift rupture severance split

WEAK

split-up

Antonyms

STRONG

accord agreement attachment closing closure combination connection continuation greeting harmony hello juncture union unity

Example Sentences

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The Shapira text — which Dershowitz calls the Valediction of Moses, or V — differs from canonical Deuteronomy in a number of striking ways.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

The high school produced a second yearbook, Valediction 1945, summing up its years in camp.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

As a mournful Valediction, before I enter upon any new Scene, the Reader will pardon this melancholy Expostulation.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

For, though mind be the heaven, where love may sit, Beauty a convenient type may be to figure it, he writes, in the Valediction to his Book, thus giving formal expression to his heresy.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

Valediction is a learned word never in popular use.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Vocabulary lists containing valediction

Things Fall Apart

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Atonement

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