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ut·ter·ance1    Audio Help   [uht-er-uhns] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an act of uttering; vocal expression.
2.manner of speaking; power of speaking: His very utterance was spellbinding.
3.something uttered; a word or words uttered; a cry, animal's call, or the like.
4.Linguistics. any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence: it may be coextensive with a sentence.
5.Obsolete. a public sale of goods.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME; see utter1, -ance]
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–noun Archaic.
the utmost extremity, esp. death.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < OF outrance, oultrance, equiv. to oultr(er) to pass beyond (< L ultrā beyond) + -ance -ance]
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ut·ter·ance 1    Audio Help   (ŭt'ər-əns)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. The act of uttering; vocal expression.
    2. The power of speaking; speech: as long as I have utterance.
    3. A manner of speaking: argued with forceful utterance.
  2. Something uttered or expressed; a statement.

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ut·ter·ance 2    Audio Help   (ŭt'ər-əns)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The uttermost end or extremity; the bitter end.


[Middle English, from Old French outrance, from outrer, to go beyond limits, from Vulgar Latin *ultrāre, from Latin ultrā, beyond; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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utterance

noun
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication 

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Utterance

Ut"ter*ance\, n. 1. The act of uttering. Specifically: (a) Sale by offering to the public. [Obs.] --Bacon. (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. --Milton.

2. 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.
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