valedictory

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He was there to give what he called his valedictory address, hosted by GWU's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.

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  1. noun A closing or farewell statement or address, especially one delivered at graduation exercises.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or expressing a valedictory.

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  • Then he uttered a valedictory which I have always been glad to recall as his last message, for I never saw him again When you fust come to us,'' he said, ``you had a lot of crooked places, an' we had a lot of crooked places; and we kind of run into each other, all of us. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • His last utterance in the published volumes is certainly in a sense valedictory, as it refers to the position acquired by the Champion , and the difficulty experienced in establishing it. —  Fielding
  • All programmes except inaugural and valedictory will be organized in different colleges of the Amritsar namely Khalsa College, B.B.K. DAV College for women & Govt. —  PunjabNewsline News
  • He wrote this lecture as a valedictory address on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Utrecht but faced pressure to omit the final section, included here: van der Horst explores the connections between the antiquity of the blood libel and contemporary antisemitism in the Muslim world. —  TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
  • Greed will be their valedictory, their epitaph, their message to the world, as, out of one job after another, they wave goodbye. the university —  University Diaries
 

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  1. from New Latin as if *valedictorius, from Latin valedictus, past participle of valedicere, say farewell: see valediction.
 

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/væləˈdɪktəri/
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