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noun

Utterance n.

The act of uttering. Specifically:

(a)

Sale by offering to the public. (Obs.)

(b)

Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.

(c)

Vocal expression; articulation; speech. "At length gave utterance to these words."

Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance. "They... began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." "O, how unlike To that large utterance of the early gods!"

Utterance n. The last extremity; the end; death; outrance. (Obs.) "Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our men to skirmish one against another to the utterance."

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"Utterance" Quotes from Famous Books

... under The live roots of the tree, In my darkness the thunder Makes utterance of me; In the clash of my boughs with each other ye hear the waves ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions ... deliver up to justice all persons ... charged with murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy or arson or robbery or forgery or the utterance of forged paper...." Power was given to judges and other magistrates to issue warrants of arrest, to hear evidence and if "the evidence be deemed sufficient ... it shall be the duty of the ... judge or magistrate to certify the same to the ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... were not taken down at the time; they were finely eloquent, and gained effect from the clear, deliberate utterance; but the nearest approach to them was recorded in a letter of J.R. Green, the future historian, ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch • Leonard Huxley

... the low, throbbing utterance of a man carried out of himself. "It angers me to think that the worst of these loafers, these drunken beasts, can glare at you—can speak to you. They have no right to breathe the same air with one ...

— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland

... have been more than conquerors,—in common life, on the quiet or lonely sick bed, under the grasp of fever or of consumption, the conquest has been witnessed as often and as completely. It is not a little thing when the faintest whisper of thought to which expiring nature can give utterance breathes of nothing but of peace and of forgiveness. It is not a little thing when the name of Christ possesses us wholly; not distinctly, it may be, for reason may be too weak for this; but with an indescribable power of support and comfort. Or even if there be a last conflict,—a season ...

— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold

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