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perlocutes

perlocutes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 perlocutes

What is perlocutes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Perlocutes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of perlocute.

Words near perlocutes in the dictionary

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

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