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A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage. quotations examples
Another way fathers impact sons is that sons, one their voices have changed in puberty, invariably answer the telephone with the same locutions and intonations of their fathers.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company
The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way. quotations examples
So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 299
Style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style. examples
(religion) A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint. examples