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

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

But with that happy Valediction for one night, that Elias the Artist hath left me most sad in expectation unto this very day.

From The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires by Helvetius, John Frederick

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.