perlocutionary

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adjective

Of or pertaining to perlocution.

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Meanings

adjectiveperlocutionary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to perlocution.

    Threats and offers have many perlocutionary effects, not all of which determine their effect on freedom.

    2007, Ian Carter, Matthew H. Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Freedom: a philosophical anthology, page 301
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    Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.

    2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257

Origin

From perlocution + -ary.

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APA

perlocutionary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perlocutionary

MLA

“perlocutionary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perlocutionary. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perlocutionary,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perlocutionary.

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