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noun

Utterance n.

The act of uttering. Specifically:

(a)

Sale by offering to the public. (Obs.)

(b)

Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.

(c)

Vocal expression; articulation; speech. "At length gave utterance to these words."

Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance. "They... began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." "O, how unlike To that large utterance of the early gods!"

Utterance n. The last extremity; the end; death; outrance. (Obs.) "Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our men to skirmish one against another to the utterance."

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Etymology of 'Utterance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Utterance" Quotes from Famous Books

... because if God had ever given Himself in communion with His creatures it was not reasonable that he should afterwards always withhold Himself. A friendly humor looked from his dull eyes, and, in never quite coming to a formulated joke, stayed his utterance as if he were hopeful of some such event in time. He stood large in bulk as well as height, and drew his breath ...

— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells

... and images under which it admits of presentation. The annual developments of vegetable life from the bosom of the earth, drops taken from a fountain and retaining its properties in their removal, the separation of the air into distinct breaths, the soil into individual atoms, the utterance of a tone gradually dying away in reverberated echoes, the radiation of beams from a central light, the exhalation of particles of moisture from the ocean, the evolution of numbers out of an original unity, these are among ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... to fail in utterance. Sometimes amid the swift melodious dance Of fluttering words—as if it had not been, The thought has melted, vanished into night; Sometimes I say a thing I did not mean, And lo! 'tis better, by thy ordered chance, Than what eluded me, ...

— A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul • George MacDonald

... wisest men seldom have the loftiest genius, and perhaps happiness is granted rather to mediocrity of mind than to mediocrity of circumstance;" but I did not give so uncourteous a reply to my host an audible utterance; on the contrary, "I do not doubt," said I, as I rose to depart, "the wisdom of a choice which has brought you self-gratulation. And it has been said by a man both great and good, a man to whose mind was ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... take this step, the suitor's first difficulty is how to get a favourable opportunity; and next, having got the chance, how to screw his courage up to give utterance to the "declaration." We have heard of a young lover who carried on a courtship for four months ere he could obtain a private interview with his lady-love. In the house, as might be expected, they were never left alone; and in a walk a third party always accompanied ...

— Routledge's Manual of Etiquette • George Routledge

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