valedictory
adjective
bidding goodbye; saying farewell.
valedictories
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pluralof valedictory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She stood all of 5 feet 4 inches, not counting the white stiletto heels, on the podium in the House television studio Thursday for one of her many valedictories.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two thousand years ago man's manner of dying was profoundly changed by the greatest of valedictories: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."
From Time Magazine Archive
As that seminal group's linchpin, Robertson wrote spooky, spunky and romantic valedictories to the mythic ghosts of American history: rounders and robbers, gamblers and wanderers, the proud, the humble and the haunted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gloves and rings are the valedictories of the dead—their vales, or parting tokens, received by the mourners, at the hand of some surviving friend.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
