English Explanatory Dictionary

prelocution

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

a mental planning act before a verbal locution in a speech act

Word forms

prelocution prelocutions

Etymology

From pre- + locution.

Related words

locution illocution perlocution prelocutionary

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