farewell address

noun

1. (initial capital letters),  a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.

2. a speech delivered by someone upon leaving a job, post, etc.

Example Sentences

Angelica and Eliza encouraged Hamilton and helped him refine his ideas, including his defense of the Constitution and his crafting of George Washington’s farewell address.

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We will continue to follow this pendulum of political extremes, until we heed the words of George Washington, who in his farewell address said that “reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

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It also builds on his farewell address earlier this year, in which he warned of the rise of oligarchic power, rampant disinformation, and the weakening of democratic institutions.

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In doing so, he helped lay the groundwork for what President Dwight D. Eisenhower would, in his farewell address to Congress in 1961, warn against as “the disastrous rise of misplaced power.”

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In his farewell address from aboard the ISS on Sunday, the Indian astronaut said India's journey in space exploration may be tough, but it has begun.

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