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
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
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 John Crombie Brown
The marshes stretched before me bare and gray, with here and there a flush of evening color, serving but to emphasize their utterness of desolation.
From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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
