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valedictory
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Definition:Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Mr. Jaggers had risen when Joe demonstrated, and had backed near the door. Without evincing any inclination to come in again, he there delivered his valedictory remarks. They were these.
"Well, Mr. Pip, I think the sooner you leave here—as you are to be a gentleman—the better. [...]"
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Standing perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its base, the lines of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and forming any angle less than the sum of two right angles.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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