verdictive
nounEtymology From verdict + -ive.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sciences A speech act whereby a judgment is issued.
- Verdictives consist in the delivering of a finding, official or unofficial, upon evidence or reasons as to value or fact […]1962, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words, Oxford University Press, published 1965, page 152:
- Coordinate terms
- behabitive, commissive, exercitive, expositive