0 a greeting in words or actions, or the words used at the beginning of a letter or speech
1 a greeting in words or actions, or the words used at the beginning of a letter or speech:
A salutation that means the crossing of a threshold.
Both used these salutations to end their letters, and these were much more than merely courteous or formulaic sentiments.
It begins with a formal salutation, with formal lexis and verb agreement in the first paragraph.
Another indication of how emails and messages are closer to the spoken than the traditional written form comes immediately with the salutation (if indeed there is one).
We should not give them the salutation that they are involved in some great political cause.
I think that the salutations and good wishes should come a little later.
Is not the salutation by which we know one another one of those words?
They deserve our salutations for that.
