(n.) A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.
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Valediction
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(n.) A farewell; a bidding farewell.
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(1) As they crowded around my camera they shouted out their professions as a kind of valediction: "I'm an interior designer … sales rep … bank clerk … I'm a classical pianist and I studied at the fucking Royal Academy!"
(2) Georgia Gould does not quote from her father's letter to her, though she says she reads it all the time, but her valediction is no less moving, detailing the closeness and moments of comedy of the final days, with a kind of euphoria.
(3) Roth has lived a life so dedicated to his work – long, isolated days wrestling with tricky, often painful material – that it's hard not to take his valediction at face value; despite the mixed reception received by some of his later novels , his withdrawal is unlikely to have been caused by a fit of pique.
(4) Forthrightness is a permissible perk of valediction and Sir Michael is as well qualified as anyone to opine on educational inequality.
(5) After the predictable and fun reunion of former cast members , after a long on-screen tribute to all the behind-the-scenes workers, he left a kind of valediction on the show’s purpose, and its target: “institutional bullshit designed to obscure and distract”.