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utterance

noun
/ˈʌtəɹəns/

Etymology

From Middle English outraunce, utteraunce, from Old French outrance (see outrance).

  1. derived from outrance
  2. inherited from outraunce

Definitions

  1. An act of, or the process of, uttering.

    • at length gave utterance to these words
    • July 1857, The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review Mathematics and Poetry are … the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

  2. An instance of that act or process

    An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.

    • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
    • To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

  3. The ability to speak.

    • Mrs. Weston kissed her with tears of joy; and when she could find utterance, assured her, that this protestation had done her more good than any thing else in the world could do.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A manner of speaking.

      • He has a good utterance.
      • They [...] began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
      • [...] O, how frail / To that large utterance of the early Gods!

    2. A sale made by offering to the public.

      • The clothemakers[…] had great profite and good utterance of the sayd cloth

    3. An act of putting in circulation.

      • the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes

    4. The utmost extremity, especially of a fight

      The utmost extremity, especially of a fight; bodily harm or death.

      • To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to th' utterance.

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Derived

performative utterance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at utterance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at utterance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at utterance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA