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prelocution

noun

Etymology

From pre- + locution.

  1. borrowed from locūtiō
  2. prefixed as prelocution — “pre + locution”

Definitions

  1. a mental planning act before a verbal locution in a speech act

    • On the Prelocutionary Act in Speech Events，https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103820/http://www.tronest.cn/Article.asp?id=1371565

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prelocution. 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