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locution
noun /loʊ̯ˈkju.ʃn̩/
speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. -Marston.

See Also: colloquial, colloquium, colloquy, illocution, interlocutor, interlocution, loquacious, perlocution, soliloquy

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