Pronounced: ah-DRAY, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word
Yesterday’s word
The word allocute means “to make a formal speech, especially by a defendant after being found guilty and before being sentenced in a court”
First usage
This word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word came from allocution (a formal speech), which comes from the Latin word allocution, which came from loqui (to speak).
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