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allocution

[al-uh-kyoo-shuhn] / ˌæl əˈkyu ʃən /
NOUN
formal speech or address
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This Allocution calls to mind Spainʼs last struggle with Mexico.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

Now, from the tomb in which after his murders he rotted, Clement the Fifth howls against the successors of his victims, in the Allocution of Pio Nono against the Free-Masons.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Independence of the Holy See, with an Appendix containing the Papal Allocution and a translation.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

The Pontifical Allocution unmasked the falsehood, but did not change the condition of affairs.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

He pointed out that the Holy See in its Consistorial Allocution of January 22nd, 1915, invited the belligerents to observe the rules of war.

From War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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