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• n  (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

• In his allocution he deplored civil unrest in Italy; expressed sorrow for the tenseness between the Church, and the governments of Chile; Argentina, Mexico and Czechoslovakia .
• Day before, in his Consistorial allocution, Pius XII emphasized the "supranational" character of the Church's spiritual empire, contrasted its view of man with the machinations of .
• I am here today to accept responsibility for my crimes by pleading guilty and, with this plea allocution, explain the means by which I carried out and concealed my fraud.

News & Articles

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• Judge May Require Oath for Guilty Plea, Third Circuit Says
  It is up to the sentencing judge whether a criminal defendant's allocution is sworn or not, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled on an issue of first impression.
  Oct. 16, 2013 - Law.com

Quotes

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• Andrew Cuomo in Albany Times Union
  This is not three layers deep, four layers deep: This is the top senior official who made the investment decisions,Cuomo said. "In his allocution, he says there was a culture of corruption in the comptroller's office."