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allocution

[al-uh-kyoo-shuhn] / ˌæl əˈkju ʃən /
NOUN
formal speech or address
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Durst declined to give an allocution for the crime.

From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021

But at his Friday sentencing hearing for Floyd’s murder, Chauvin’s allocution lasted just 36 seconds.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2021

He offered a law professor’s allocution on the subject of foreign-born citizens’ eligibility for the American presidency.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016

Heinrich Himmler himself, the Reichsfuehrer of the SS, expressed this notion in an allocution set out in detail.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2015

Gregory XIV. addressed to the consistory a fulminating allocution, and a flood of controversial tracts on either side swept over Germany.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz




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