Definition of "locution" []

• A particular word, phrase, or expression, especially one that is used by a particular person or group. (noun)
• Style of speaking; phraseology. (noun)

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• "Republicans, who have come up with the mid-term locution of "Pledge to America" to appropriate a populist tone, have meanwhile, called for an end of the "government takeover" of Fannie and Freddie and a "shrinking of their portfolios.""
• "But we call a locution ˜proper™ when we use it according to the signification properly and principally given to it, and we call a locution ˜improper™ when we use it otherwise, although we legitimately can use it otherwise."
• "The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine."