valediction
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By 16: Why Camp Will Always Be Relevant Though by definition they appear at the end of things, valedictions lack the somber finality of a conclusion.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2013
While valedictions were logical and necessary in the age of handwritten letters, the sheer volume of modern emails makes formal signoffs unjustifiable.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2013
It was also a year of valedictions: Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wolfe, Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Madox Roberts spoke their last words as artists.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw Harvard in 'Commencement,' which is Eights Week and May Week, the festive winding-up of the year, a time of parties and of valedictions.
From Letters from America by Brooke, Rupert
General valedictions were exchanged, the landlord bowed, and we moved off for the forest.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing valediction
Things Fall Apart
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Novel Study: Brave New World, Chapters 13–18
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Atonement
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