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allocution

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10 lettersPronunciation /alə(ʊ)ˈkjuːʃən/Part of speech nounSorted acillnootuStarts with AEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

Word origin

From Latin allocūtiō (“address”).

Used in a sentence

  • The Minister of War, in a barrack-square allocution to the officers of the artillery regiment he had been inspecting, had declared the national honour sold to foreigners.
  • As of July, 1985, 19 states permitted victim allocution at the sentencing phase of criminal trials.
  • Allocution is the dissemination of information by a central unit towards a collectivity of decentral units, the central unit being both the source and the determining actor.

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