illocutionary
adjEtymology
From illocution + -ary.
Definitions
Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
- "I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for illocutionary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA