utterness
- a word derived from utter.
Example Sentences
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Coogan does ample justice to Stan’s eyebrows, which, in their rise and fall, are a more sensitive guide to the utterness of his bewilderment than the celebrated scratching of his scalp.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2018
The “quivering” poise of Don Silva’s nature makes it impossible he should rest quiet in this utterness of moral and spiritual fall.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie
And even then, in that awful hour, he had not felt the utterness of misery such as came to him when he saw that his work in Howrah was undone.
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
Peter had a funny, extremely amused laugh; hardly the laugh of a prosperous person; rather that of the unhorsed knight who acknowledges the utterness of his defeat and finds humour in the very fact.
From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
In the utterness of the self-abnegation of the genuine Protestant there is something approaching the heroic.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony
