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valediction

/val-i-dik-shuhn/US // ˌvæl ɪˈdɪk ʃən //UK // (ˌvælɪˈdɪkʃən) //

告别词,告别仪式,告别式,告辞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of bidding farewell or taking leave.
    • : an utterance, oration, or the like, given in bidding farewell or taking leave; valedictory.

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Examples

  • If Shinseki had given the same speech three weeks ago, it might have been a campaign plan instead of a valediction.

  • Three weeks ago, it might have been a campaign plan—instead of a valediction.

  • In the weeks ahead that warning may well become the most common valediction in eastern Ukraine.

  • "I never remember sich a evenin', my dear," was Mrs. Stitchley's valediction.

  • Shall we pronounce the sad valediction to freedom, and immolate liberty on the altars our fathers have raised to her?

  • I gave him the usual Spanish valediction, Vaya usted con Dios, and saw no more of him.

  • Shakespeare put his valediction into the mouth of Prospero; Sophocles entrusted his to his greatest creation Oedipus.

  • It poured itself into one mournful, savage, sacred cry of salutation and valediction.