locute
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To utter a meaningful sentence; to perform a locutionary act.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "And 'tis strange that Reverend Body shou'd not find out in several Years, that he who cannot Locute will never Prolocute well."
- "[…]and P. Bateson ("Behavioural development and evolutionary processes") pointedly locutes what R. Dawkins ("Replicators and vehicles") only circumlocutes—that he (Dawkins) has wisely changed his language to clarify the fact that the direct action of selection is on phenotypes, not genes."
- ""God's a pervert[…]" He locutes with double rows of gold teeth, in the bland guise of an argument."
- "The translator locutes propositions, but illocutes nothing at all."
- "By contrast, for Grice, one who for instance speaks ironically makes as if to illocute, rather than making as if to locute."