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Utterance vs Behabitive - What's the difference?

utterance | behabitive |

As nouns the difference between utterance and behabitive

is that utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc) while behabitive is (pragmatics) a speech act by which an attitude is adopted.

As an adjective behabitive is

(pragmatics) adopting an attitude, by making an utterance.

utterance

English

Alternative forms

* utteraunce

Etymology 1

From

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of uttering.
  • * (John Milton)
    • at length gave utterance to these words
  • Something spoken.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
  • The ability to speak.
  • Manner of speaking.
  • * Bible, Acts ii. 4
    • Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
  • * (John Keats)
    • O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
  • (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
    • Quotations
    * Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas Hill
    Related terms
    * utter * utterable * utterer

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) oultrance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
  • *:
  • *:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid

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    behabitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (pragmatics) Adopting an attitude, by making an utterance.
  • * {{quote-book, 1969, Robert W. Jenson, The Knowledge of Things Hoped For
    • citation , passage='God is good' is behabitive and commissive said by someone brought up in the Christian tradition, but may not be said by an animist of his high god.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pragmatics) A speech act by which an attitude is adopted.
  • * {{quote-book, 2001, Peter Digeser, Political Forgiveness
    • citation , passage=As a behabitive , unsuccessful forgiveness is also connected to sincerity — in this case, a sincere willingness to work on oneself and eliminate resentment.}}

    Coordinate terms

    (speech act list)