Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The last or utmost extremity; the bitter end; death.
- noun The act of uttering.
- noun The act of sounding or expressing with the voice; vocal expression; also, power of speaking; speech.
- noun That which is uttered or conveyed by the voice; a word or words; as,the utterances of the pulpit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of uttering.
- noun obsolete Sale by offering to the public.
- noun Putting in circulation.
- noun Vocal expression; articulation; speech.
- noun Power or style of speaking.
- noun obsolete The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now literary The
utmost extremity (of a fight etc.). - noun An act of
uttering . - noun Something spoken.
- noun The ability to speak.
- noun Manner of speaking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Recall that on the Russellian analysis my utterance is shorthand for ˜there is a table and only one table and every table is covered with books™.)
Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007
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Every utterance from the illegal prime meanster is hollow like that thingamajig held up by his neck, and so terribly terribly shallow.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: New constitution or delaying tactic? 2009
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Dogmatic utterance from the mouth of ignorance may make gods laugh, but it should make men weep.
Revolution 2010
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Your every utterance is an anguished cry, nay, desperate SHRIEK, for help …
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His every utterance is a revision attempt to history.
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Since the news media are today wholly owned and completely controlled by the State and its corporate proxies, such an utterance is about as likely to be forthcoming as Osama bin Laden making a public declaration of his conversion to fundamentalist Christianity.
Walter Cronkite: ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate,’ 1968 « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Convention in Speech Acts ":" For the illocutionary force of an utterance is essentially something that is intended to be understood.
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But the idea that every utterance is spoken in response to a future utterance not yet articulated (that was rough, but will do for now) definitely seems present in this section of Augustine's text, albeit more than a thousand years before Bakhtin wrote.
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning... Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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But the idea that every utterance is spoken in response to a future utterance not yet articulated (that was rough, but will do for now) definitely seems present in this section of Augustine's text, albeit more than a thousand years before Bakhtin wrote.
Archive 2007-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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If utterance is given to a foul thought in the pages of The Rage and the Pride, the author is only too eager to claim it for herself.
Holy Writ 2003
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