Allocution

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(noun.) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts.

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(n.) The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

(n.) An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.

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n. a formal address esp. of the Pope to his clergy.

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