valediction
- n a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
- n the act of saying farewell
- But the crowd had come to the rally at the Baruch College gymnasium in lower Manhattan to hear a victory story, not a valediction.
- Anchoring the piece are Davies' fond and acid recollections of his home town what he, in his drawling, very un-Liverpudlian narrative voice, calls "a valediction and an epitaph.
- At the end, they sobbed farewell to an old friend who gives a beautiful valediction.