Examples of use of VALEDICTION
1. For a moment she stopped, turned and raised her slender hand as if in valediction.
2. The happiest valediction on the V&A show is that at least peoples across Europe rejected all it celebrates.
3. It is good news that real reflection has at last begun even, by way of valediction, in No.10 Downing Street.
4. A gun carriage bore his coffin through thronged streets in bright, freezing weather to a valediction, attended by guests from 40 countries, before a simple burial ceremony.
5. After Lebanon Wright retired from the Foreign Office, setting down in a valediction as he did so; his thoughts on the service, somewhat in the manner of a great precursor, the 17th century diplomat and poet Sir Henry Wotton.