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Utterance
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The act of uttering. Specifically: --
2. Sale by offering to the public. [Obs.] Bacon.
3. Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.
4. Vocal expression; articulation; speech. At length gave utterance to these words. Milton.
5. Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance. They . . . began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Acts ii. 4. O, how unlike To that large utterance of the early gods! Keats.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: noun (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. Holland.