(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
Generally, to allocute in law means "to speak out formally." In the field of apologetics, allocution is generally done in defense of a belief.
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It was effaced as easily as it had been evoked by an allocution from mr candidate mulligan in that vein of pleasantry which none better than he knew know to affect , postulating as the supremest object of desire a nice clean old man 因候补者穆利根先生比任何人均了解开玩笑所能引起之效果,乃面谕曰“如要发泄淫欲,宜寻一干净可爱之老臾。 ”遂使方才那番感动顿然消失。