About The Word Allocution
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Allocution
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What's The Definition Of Allocution?
[n] (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
Synonyms | Synonyms for Allocution: Related Terms | Find terms related to Allocution: address | after-dinner speech | chalk talk | debate | declamation | diatribe | eulogy | exhortation | filibuster | forensic | forensic address | formal speech | funeral oration | harangue | hortatory address | inaugural | inaugural address | invective | jeremiad | lecture | oration | pep talk | peroration | philippic | pitch | prepared speech | prepared text | public speech | reading | recital | recitation | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | set speech | speech | speechification | speeching | talk | talkathon | tirade | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address Allocution In Webster's Dictionary \Al`lo*cu"tion\, n. [L. allocuto, fr. alloqui to
speak to; ad + loqui to speak: cf. F. allocution.]
1. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in
words.
2. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a
pope to his clergy. --Addison.
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