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
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
In the utterness of the self-abnegation of the genuine Protestant there is something approaching the heroic.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude
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 Dame Rose Macaulay
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
