Meanings
adverbperformatively (not comparable)
- not comparableIn a performative manner.
He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively.
1866, George Wyard, Devout and Explanatory Reflections on Important Portions of God's Word, page 3981 more example
Most of them can also be used performatively, however, i.e. to make explicit what kind of speech act it is the speaker performs (not all illocutionary verbs can be so used however: cf e.g. boast, threaten).
1980, Magnus Ljung, Reflections on the English Progressive
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