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Webster 1913 Edition
Utterance
Ut′ter-ance
,Noun.
1.
The act of uttering.
Specifically: –(a)
Sale by offering to the public.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
(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. Milton.
2.
Power or style of speaking;
as, a good
. utterance
They . . . began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance
. Acts ii. 4.
O, how unlike
To that large
To that large
utterance
of the early gods! Keats.
Ut′ter-ance
,Noun.
[F.
outrance
. See Outrance
.] 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
. Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Utterance
UT'TERANCE
,Noun.
1.
The act of uttering words; pronunciation; manner of speaking; as a good or bad utterance.They began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance. Acts 2.
2.
Emission from the mouth; vocal expression; as the utterance of sounds.3.
Extremity; furthest part. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
utterance
utterance
English
Alternative forms
Noun
utterance (plural utterances)
- An act of uttering.
- John Milton
- at length gave utterance to these words
- John Milton
- Something spoken.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- “[…] 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. 237a.
- 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.
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- The ability to speak.
- Manner of speaking.
- Bible, Acts ii. 4
- They […] began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- John Keats
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- He has a good utterance.
- Bible, Acts ii. 4
- (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
- the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes
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
Translations
an act of uttering
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something spoken
ability to speak
manner of speaking
Etymology 2
From Old French oultrance.
Noun
utterance (plural utterances)
- (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter liij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- 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
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter liij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X: