valediction

• Self-portraits on film carry the same risks of self-censorship, post event valediction, and plain lying as my bathroom mirror. —  DVD Times
• Andante merely extends the processional valediction, the RIAS horn and flute parts luminous over inflamed, intensely etched violins and cellos. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• The English people today are addicted to the rhythms of their own industrial and imperial valediction: they like saying goodbye to the past, and saying goodbye to the past is the single biggest thing they can't say goodbye to. —  Voyou Desoeuvre
• It may now be read as my parting address and valediction, made to my friends. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• It rained hard, so that a small stream of water, which descended from the roof of the coach as I entered it, had insinuated itself between one of the flannel waistcoats, which formed so important an item in the maternal valediction, and my skin, whence, endeavouring to carry out what a logician would call the "law of its being," by finding its own level, it placed me in the undesirable position of an involuntary disciple of the cold-water cure taking a "sitz-bad". —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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