valediction

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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

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

The wife and husband parted, and he left with her another little poem, which he calls a "Valediction, forbidding to mourn."

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

And in John Donne's "A Valediction: of my Name in the Window," we find two lovers in a situation reminiscent of that of the scene I previously quoted from Moll Flanders.

From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 by Guffey, George R.