allocution
/ˌaləˈkjuːʃ(ə)n
/noun
A formal speech giving advice or a warning: the daily allocutions of the Pontificate...
- This he made abundantly clear in the allocution he delivered in Rome on May 12, 1879, on the occasion of receiving the cardinal's red hat from Pope Leo XIII.
- And then he invited us to say what we would - to ‘make our allocutions’ - before he rendered a sentence.
- And that language is sure to be loaded with sensitivities about respect, honor, pride, and dignity, along with allocutions to the sacred, purifying nature of violence.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin allocutio(n-), from alloqui 'speak to', from ad- 'to' + loqui 'speak'.
Rhymes
- Haute-Normandie
- hauteur
- haute école
- haut monde
- haut-relief
- hav
- havable
- havage
- havala
- havan
- Havana
- Havant
- Havarti
- Havasu, Lake
- Havdalah
- have
- have a ball
- have a bee in one's bonnet
- have a bird
- haveable
- have a bone to pick with someone
- have a bun in the oven
- have a cadenza
- have a care
- have a care (or an eye etc.)