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perlocuting

perlocuting is the present participle and gerund 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 perlocuting

What is perlocuting the present participle and gerund of?
Perlocuting is the present participle and gerund of perlocute.

Words near perlocuting in the dictionary

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

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