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==English==
{{wikipedia|Allocution (disambiguation)|Allocution}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|en|la|allocūtiō||address}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/alə(ʊ)ˈkjuːʃən/|a=UK}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-allocution.wav|a=Southern England}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# A [[formal]] [[speech]], especially one which is regarded as [[authoritative]] and [[forceful]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1904|author=w:Joseph Conrad|title=w:Nostromo|chapter=2
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|US|legal}} The [[question]] put to a [[convict]]ed [[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.
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1997|author=Caren Myers|title=Encouraging '''Allocution''' at Capital Sentencing: A Proposal for Use Immunity|journal=Columbia Law Review|section=vol. 97, no. 3, p. 788 n6
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|US|legal}} The [[legal]] [[right]] of a [[victim]], in some [[jurisdiction]]s, 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.
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1989|author=Karen L. Kennard|title=The Victim's Veto: A Way to Increase Victim Impact on Criminal Case Dispositions|journal=California Law Review|section=vol. 77, no. 2, p. 427 n49
|passage=As of July, 1985, 19 states permitted victim '''allocution''' at the sentencing phase of criminal trials.}}
# {{lb|en|Roman Catholicism}} A [[pronouncement]] by a [[pope]] to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church [[policy]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2004|author=Thomas Shannon; James Walter|title=Implications of the Papal '''Allocution''' on Feeding Tubes,|journal=The Hastings Center Report|volume=34|issue=4|page=18
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|communications|media}} The mode of [[information]] [[dissemination]] in which media [[broadcast]]s are transmitted to multiple [[receiver]]s 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|9789051993950}}, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=ofDFXuBCPcIC&pg=PA198&dq=allocution+-defendant+-law+-papal+-pope+media+-Bordewijk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6_NRUvGID4WkqAHK34DYDg&ved=0CEoQuwUwBA#v=onepage&q=allocution%20-defendant%20-law%20-papal%20-pope%20media%20-Bordewijk&f=false 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.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Christina Spurgeon|title=Advertising and New Media|isbn=9780415430357|pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=lFiONJ8VvUoC&dq=allocution+-defendant+-law+-papal+-pope+media+Bordewijk&q=allocution#v=snippet&q=allocution&f=false|page=5
|passage=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.}}

====Related terms====
* [[allocute]]

====Translations====
{{trans-top|formal, authoritative speech}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|alokucja|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|alocução|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

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

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=acillnootu|loculation}}

==French==

===Etymology===
{{lbor|fr|la|allocūtiō}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-allocution.wav}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# (short) [[speech]]
#* {{quote-journal|fr|month=August|year=2023|work=Le Monde diplomatique|title=Sans les images ?|author=Ulrike Lune Riboni|page=28|passage=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{{...}}}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}