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perlocuted

perlocuted is the simple past and past participle of perlocute.

Meaning of perlocute

Verb

perlocute (third-person singular simple present perlocutes, present participle perlocuting, simple past and past participle perlocuted)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a perlocutionary effect.
    • […] a case in which a question illocuted as a genuine, non-rhetorical question is erroneously perlocuted as a rhetorical question.1994, Cornelia Ilie, What Else Can I Tell You?, Almqvist & Wiksell International, page 41

Questions about perlocuted

What is perlocuted the simple past and past participle of?
Perlocuted is the simple past and past participle of perlocute.

Words near perlocuted in the dictionary

  1. Perlmans
  2. Perlmutter
  3. Perlmutters
  4. perlo
  5. perlocute
  6. perlocuted
  7. perlocutes
  8. perlocuting
  9. perlocution
  10. perlocutionary
  11. perlocutions

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