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valediction

[val-i-dik-shuhn] / ˌvæl ɪˈdɪk ʃən /


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The service will end with the final commendation and valediction, marking the beginning of nine days of mourning for the Pope, the Catholic news agency reported.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2025

Two posthumous No. 1 albums were a valediction.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2023

As a young postdoctoral student, David McKay was in the audience at Rice University in September 1962 when JFK had given his famous "We choose to go to the Moon" valediction.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2020

But these performances are, in fact, deeply entrenched in Coltrane’s moment: He’s issuing a warm valediction to his old catalog, full of his characteristic seriousness and serenity, before charging even further ahead.

From New York Times Sep. 25, 2019

There were more prayers, a psalm, the Lord’s Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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