allocution
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin allocūtiō (“address”).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /alə(ʊ)ˈkjuːʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editallocution (countable and uncountable, plural allocutions)
- 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.
- (chiefly US, law) 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.
- (chiefly US, law) 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.
- (Roman Catholicism) 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.
- (communication, media) 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.
- 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):
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editReferences
edit- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin allocūtiō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editallocution f (plural allocutions)
- (short) speech
- 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
edit- “allocution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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