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US
/ˌvæɫəˈdɪktɝi/
]
[ UK /vˈælɪdˌɪktəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /vˈælɪdˌɪktəɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
- a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
ADJECTIVE
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of a speech expressing leave-taking
a valedictory address
a valedictory address -
of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell
a valedictory address
a valedictory address
a suitable valedictory gesture
valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course
How To Use valedictory In A Sentence
- a valedictory address
- Edward Elgar is a paragon of the valedictory, with his two later concerti, for violin and cello, held up as sterling examples. Archive 2008-01-01
- He delivered his talk as a kind of valedictory, describing his 16 year tenure at the institution.
- They will take part in activities like memory games, personality development modules and even stage a Shakespeare play on the valedictory function on Saturday, the organisers said.
- The final valedictory service will be held on Saturday starting at 7pm in the Cook Street hall, to mark a community link which goes back 114 years.
- Gary Locke, in a valedictory to the judiciary, on Monday urged judges to take the pledge against drinking in public - or at least to hold themselves to a single drink.
- a suitable valedictory gesture
- Children were pepped up so much that they organised a valedictory function on their own.
- All preparations having been slowly completed the day for departure arrived, and Chin, with much bowing and ceremonial posturing, having wished his wife and little son adieu, embarked with Wang, taking the equivalent of five thousand dollars [2] in sycee shoes and gold-dust, and amidst valedictory fusillades of fire-crackers, as well as a beating of gongs, the flotilla cast off and sailed away down river. Life and sport in China Second Edition
- There were to be no more valedictory dispatches. Times, Sunday Times
