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n. A formal and authoritative speech; an address.

n. A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.

n. The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.

n. The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.

n. A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.

n. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

n. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.

n. A speaking to; an address, especially a formal address. Also written adlocution.

n. Specifically— In Roman antiquity, a formal address by a general-in-chief or imperator to his soldiers. Such scenes were often represented in art on medals and reliefs, In the Roman Catholic Church, a public address by the pope to his clergy, or to the church generally.

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

"This is called the allocution as they say in "Law and Order.""

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