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An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, (now especially) a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions.
The soldiers greeted the dignitaries with a crisp salute.
1997, Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy, page 110:
The Roman salute, in which the right arm was raised in a straight and perpendicular manner, had been adopted by D'Annunzio during his regency in Fiume. Like other rituals utilized by D'Annunzio, the salute became part of the rising fascist movement's symbolic patrimony and was inherited by Mussolini's government.
2009, Tilman Allert, The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture, page 46:
Like lines of perspective or the beams of searchlights at Nazi Party rallies that shone into the night sky where they met in an infinitely distant beyond, the arms and hands of those giving each other the Hitler salute forever approached each other but never joined.
2010, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark: Shadows of the Apt 4, unnumbered page:
And Kaszaat let out a shriek of pure anger, bursting forwards suddenly, flinging her hand up towards Drephos as though in salute.
aking an apology which, not suspecting his intention, I did not understand, – he gave me a most ardent salute! I have seldom been more surprised. I had no idea of his taking such a freedom.
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1943 June 19, New York Times, quoted in 2000, Terry Eastland, Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases, page 64,
Yet the simple fact stands that a school child compelled to salute the flag, when he has been taught the flag is an "image" which the Bible forbids him to worship, is in effect made to say what he does not believe.
2000, Eric A. Posner, Law and Social Norms, page 129:
The person who salutes is slavishly obedient, fearful to offend the authorities or other people; the person who declines to salute has integrity and independence.
I saluted Bill at the concert, but he didn't see me through the crowd.
To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
c.1592, William Shakespeare, edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, King Richard III, The Works of William Shakespeare edition, published 1867, act 3, scene 7, page 578, line 239:
Then I salute you with this kingly title: / Long live Richard, England's royal king!
1853, Talbot Gwynne, The School for Dreamers: A Story of the Present Day, page 208:
He was saluted by Mr. James Hall, with these words: “Well, brother chip! How many murders have you been committing?”
1623, William Shakespeare, edited by Howard Staunton, King Henry the Eighth, The Works of William Shakespeare edition, volume 3, published 1864, act 2, scene 3, page 292:
Would I had no being, / If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me, / To think what follows.
his young gentleman, who was naturally facetious, in taking his leave, saluted us all round. My lord, who had before entertained some jealousy of his kinsman, was very much provoked by this trifling incident […].
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