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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

performatively en · ADV

Etymology

From performative + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a performative manner.
    • He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively. 1866, George Wyard, Devout and Explanatory Reflections on Important Portions of God's Word, page 398:
    • Most of them can also be used performatively, however, i.e. to make explicit what kind of speech act it is the speaker performs (not all illocutionary verbs can be so used however: cf e.g. boast, threaten). 1980, Magnus Ljung, Reflections on the English Progressive: