performatively
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a performative manner.
Example Sentences
- "He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively."
- "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)."
Etymology
From performative + -ly.