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Webster 1913 Edition


Locution

Lo-cu′tion

(lō̍-kū′shŭn)
,
Noun.
[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.