Etymology

From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ALLOCUTION allocūtiō (“address”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /alə(ʊ)ˈkjuːʃən/Category:English 4-syllable words#ALLOCUTIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALLOCUTION

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Noun

allocution (countable and uncountable, plural allocutions)Category:English lemmas#ALLOCUTIONCategory:English nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:English countable nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:English countable nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALLOCUTIONCategory:Pages with entries#ALLOCUTIONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ALLOCUTION

1. A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.
   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Nostromo:

     The Minister of War, in a barrack-square allocution to the officers of the artillery regiment he had been inspecting, had declared the national honour sold to foreigners.

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2. (chiefly USCategory:American English#ALLOCUTION, lawCategory:en:Law#ALLOCUTION) 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.
   • 1997, Caren Myers, “Encouraging Allocution at Capital Sentencing: A Proposal for Use Immunity”, in Columbia Law Review, vol. 97, no. 3, p. 788 n6:

     The term "allocution" refers to the personal right of a defendant to make a statement on his own behalf in an attempt to affect sentencing. . . . The word "allocution" is also frequently used . . . to describe the statement made by a defendant during a guilty plea proceeding.

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3. (chiefly USCategory:American English#ALLOCUTION, lawCategory:en:Law#ALLOCUTION) 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.
   • 1989, Karen L. Kennard, “The Victim's Veto: A Way to Increase Victim Impact on Criminal Case Dispositions”, in California Law Review, vol. 77, no. 2, p. 427 n49:

     As of July, 1985, 19 states permitted victim allocution at the sentencing phase of criminal trials.

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4. (Roman CatholicismCategory:en:Roman Catholicism#ALLOCUTION) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
   • 2004, Thomas Shannon, James Walter, “Implications of the Papal Allocution on Feeding Tubes,”, in The Hastings Center Report, volume 34, number 4, page 18:

     The recent papal allocution To the International Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas has been the occasion for much discussion concerning the use of artificial feeding tubes for nutrition and hydration.

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5. (communicationCategory:en:Communication#ALLOCUTION, mediaCategory:en:Media#ALLOCUTION) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.
   • 1993, I. Th. M. Snellen and Wim B. H. J. van de Donk (eds.), Public Administration in an Information Age, →ISBN, p. 198 (Google preview):

     Allocution is the dissemination of information by a central unit towards a collectivity of decentral units, the central unit being both the source and the determining actor.

   • 2008, Christina Spurgeon, Advertising and New Media, →ISBN, page 5:

     Bordewijk and van Kaam describe the one-to-many architecture of modern broadcast mass media as ‘allocution’. This is the least responsive type of interactivity because it is not designed to support exchanges. . . . The one-way flow of information is under the programmatic control of the media service provider.

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References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

• loculation

Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French learned borrowings from Latin#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French terms derived from Latin#ALLOCUTION allocūtiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lɔ.ky.sjɔ̃/Category:French 4-syllable words#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ALLOCUTION

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

allocution f (plural allocutions)Category:French lemmas#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French countable nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ALLOCUTIONCategory:French feminine nouns#ALLOCUTIONCategory:Pages with entries#ALLOCUTIONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ALLOCUTION

1. (short) speech, address
   • 2023 August, Ulrike Lune Riboni, “Sans les images ?”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 28:

     À ce titre, le président de la République a souligné le 30 juin dernier, dans une allocution depuis la cellule interministérielle de crise, le « rôle considérable » de Snapchat et TikTok dans les soulèvements des quartiers populaires qui on suivi la mort de Nahel Merzouk […]

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Further reading

• “allocution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012