All 8 Uses
adieu
in
Ivanhoe
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- Adieu, my dear friend; I have said enough to explain, if not to vindicate, the attempt which I have made, and which, in spite of your doubts, and my own incapacity, I am still willing to believe has not been altogether made in vain.†
Chpt Ded.adieu = goodbye
- Once more adieu; "vale tandem, non immemor mei".†
Chpt Ded. *
- To buy his favour I extend this friendship:
If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;
And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.†Chpt 6 - Adieu—and having taken the medicine which I shall send thee by the hand of Reuben, compose thyself again to rest, that thou mayest be the more able to endure the journey on the succeeding day.†
Chpt 28
- Meanwhile, adieu.†
Chpt 32
- Rowena waved a graceful adieu to him of the Fetterlock—the Saxon bade God speed him, and on they moved through a wide glade of the forest.†
Chpt 32
- —Adieu, my Prince, till better times.†
Chpt 34
- She hastened to bid Rowena adieu.†
Chpt 44
Definitions:
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(1)
(adieu) a farewell remark (an alternative to goodbye)Adieu is typically more formal than bye. It comes from the French, à Dieu which literally means "to God" — as in I entrust you to God's care.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)