Category: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.

Utterance Ut"ter*ance, n. Etym: [f. outrance. See outrance.]

Defn: 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.