illocutionary
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Is illocutionary a Scrabble word?
✓Yes, illocutionary is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 18 points in Scrabble.
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What is the meaning of illocutionary?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.Examples: ""I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force."; "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."Synonyms: illocutionalnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary
What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "illocutionary"?
How many Scrabble points is the word "illocutionary"?
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