Allocution
- n. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.
- n. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.