Utterance
['ʌt(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['ʌtərəns]
Definition
(noun.) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication.
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Definition
(n.) The act of uttering.
(n.) Sale by offering to the public.
(n.) Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.
(n.) Vocal expression; articulation; speech.
(n.) Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.
(n.) The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pronunciation, expression, elocution, delivery.
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Definition
n. (Shak.) extremity deadly contention.
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Examples
- If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The thing delivering such utterance must rest ere it could repeat the effort. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am all right, Sir,' replied Mr. Stiggins, in a tone in which ferocity was blended with an extreme thickness of utterance; 'I am all right, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Although they spoke to each other in guarded tones, their words were pronounced with sufficient distinctness of utterance to reach my ears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was the quick-changing warmth and venality and brilliant warm utterance he loved in his friend. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a profound utterance as anyone can testify who reads, let us say, the Congressional Record. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Gradually his thoughts found words in the utterance: 'Why should I claim to guide men before I myself am guided? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She tried to disperse them, but they refused to be checked--her utterance was choaked. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Suddenly her face puckered, her brow was knit with thought, she seemed twisted in troublesome effort for utterance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Never had I seen such passionate eagerness as was joined to her utterance of these words. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In reality, her thoughts were finding definite utterance in the tranquil recapitulation of the blessings in store for her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I passed over the last unanswerable utterance of the Betteredge philosophy; and returned to the subject of the man with the piebald hair. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She would not give them utterance; but her look spoke much at the moment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was a severe precision in Mrs. Garth's utterance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Charley's only utterance was a feeble, indistinct sound. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Compound utterances addressed themselves to their senses, and it was possible to view by ear the features of the neighbourhood. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Another large part of his recorded utterances is aimed against the meticulous observance of the rules of the pious career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The creative utterances will not cease, they will only be there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Apart from a few characteristic utterances of the Betteredge philosophy, this was the sum and substance of my correspondent's letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As evidence in court its word cannot be doubted, and the witness confronted by his own utterances from the phonograph must yield to its infallible dictum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Here, for the judgment of the reader, is an example of these majestic utterances, from the recent orthodox translation by the Maulvi Muhammad Ali. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The words had been thoughtless, as the utterances of impatience often are; and Mr. Welland was upon them with a pounce. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But some of the utterances of President Wilson after this epoch-making address went much further and much higher than this first statement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had long poured out utterances of repentance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And so on to vague utterances that seemed to threaten everyone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Almost the first outspoken utterances against negro slavery came from German settlers in Pennsylvania. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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