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allocution

Historically, a formal address given by the pope to the college of cardinals on any matter of ecclesiastical or political importance. In modern usage, a formal speech, especially one that informs or advises.

Since the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-58), other occasions, such as congresses, have been used for appropriate papal declarations.
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After this vigorous allocution, to one of which sort Lord Steyne treated his "Hareem" whenever symptoms of insubordination appeared in his household, the crestfallen women had nothing for it but to obey.
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Groombride's arrival, with his interpreter, whom he proposed should eat with him at the Governor's table, his allocution to the Governor on the New Movement, and the sins of Imperialism, I purposely omit.
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