Context: I wish you adieu!
interj.
Used to express farewell.
n. pl. a·dieus or a·dieux (
-dy
z
, -dz)
-dyz, -dz) A farewell.
[Middle English, from Old French a dieu, (I commend you) to God : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + Dieu, God (from Latin deus; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots).]
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Marianne, few as had been her hours of comfort in London, and eager as she had long been to quit it, could not, when it came to the point, bid adieu to the house in which she had for the last time enjoyed those hopes, and that confidence, in Willoughby, which were now extinguished for ever, without great pain.Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane
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