allocution (English, noun)
expansion: allocution (countable and uncountable, plural allocutions)
Senses:
glosses: A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: law
glosses: 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.
tags: US
countable
uncountable
topics: law
glosses: 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.
tags: US
countable
uncountable
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: communication
communications
media
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: allocutions
tags: plural