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- noun Plural form of
valedictory .
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Examples
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They wrote this "Some are drawn to valedictories like the one Pausch gave because they offer a spiritual way to grapple with mortality that isn't based in religion."
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Bad enough that in his prefaces, afterwords, book reviews, and interviews, in his position papers about prize-giving, valedictories to critical theory, and notorious PoMo lists, he has recorded at least one opinion and often several on practically everything from violence in Flannery O'Connor to the secret meaning of The Feelies.
In the Desert, Prime Time Leonard, John 2006
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For the rest, valedictories dominated yesterday's ceremony.
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One after another the southern leaders made their valedictories -- some calm and dignified, some hot and vindictive -- and left the seats they had filled for years.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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It is little wonder, when the drudgery has done its work and the sorry show is over, and the victim of the System is face to face with his empty soul at last, if in his earlier years at least he seems overfond to some of us of receiving medals, honours, and valedictories for what he might have been and of flourishing a Degree for what he has missed.
The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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Texas, and Arkansas followed in succession, with valedictories which seemed directed less to the convention than to the Union.
Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900
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The halls of Congress echoed with the infamous valedictories of senators and representatives, never, I trust in God, to enter those halls again, save as prisoners, to be impeached of high treason before the nation's judgment bench.
An Address in Commemoration of the Re-Establishment of the National Flag at Fort Sumter. 1865
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The valedictories in the Senate were a singular compound of defiance and pity, of justification and recrimination.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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On the 4th of February Mr. Slidell and Mr. Benjamin delivered their valedictories as senators from Louisiana.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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The valedictories for what is now disdainfully called "dead tree publishing" may be similarly premature.
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