utter
verb (used with object)
to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce.
utterness
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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
I have no patience to make phrases about it—for the moment it seems utterness of doubt and of loss.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
And I thought the cry to have an utterness of supplication within it; so that I grew desperate to up and go to running; yet did curb such foolishness, and stayed very hushed, to listen.
From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Then you mutely gave your warning And I felt the stress Of its passion and its presage And its utterness.
From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Duncan Campbell Scott
By the very utterness of their silence, as it seemed to him, they were as strong voices declaring that Love is but the dying daughter of Time, while Honor is the deathless son of Eternity.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various
