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Locution
Lo*cu"tion\, n. [L. locutio, fr. loqui to speak: cf. F. locution. ] Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions." --G. Eliot. I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. --Marston.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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locution
1432, from L. locutionem (nom. locutio) "a speaking," from locatus, pp. of loqui "to speak."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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