All 50 Uses of
utter
in
Middlemarch
- "Yes, but the word has dropped out of the text, or perhaps was subauditum; that is, present in the king's mind, but not uttered," said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia, who immediately dropped backward a little, because she could not bear Mr. Casaubon to blink at her.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Here was a weary experience in which he was as utterly condemned to loneliness as in the despair which sometimes threatened him while toiling in the morass of authorship without seeming nearer to the goal.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- "I don't wish to act otherwise than as your best friend, Vincy, when I say that what you have been uttering just now is one mass of worldliness and inconsistent folly."†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- But having Mr. Featherstone's land in the background, and a persuasion that, let Mary say what she would, she really did care for him, Fred was not utterly in despair.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2) *
- In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- He was so utterly downcast that he could frame no other project than to go straight to Mr. Garth and tell him the sad truth, carrying with him the fifty pounds, and getting that sum at least safely out of his own hands.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- When she made remarks to this edifying effect, she had a firm little frown on her brow, which yet did not hinder her face from looking benevolent, and her words which came forth like a procession were uttered in a fervid agreeable contralto.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- The first part of this speech comprised his whole store of maledictory expression, and was uttered with a slight snarl easy to imagine.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- But it would be difficult to convey to those who never heard him utter the word "business," the peculiar tone of fervid veneration, of religious regard, in which he wrapped it, as a consecrated symbol is wrapped in its gold-fringed linen.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- With her first words, uttered in a tone that shook him, she startled Mr. Casaubon into looking at her, and meeting the flash of her eyes.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- The memories which made this resource utterly hopeless were a new current that shook Dorothea out of her pallid immobility.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- As to the sentiments of Solomon and Jonah, they were held in utter suspense: it seemed to them that the old will would have a certain validity, and that there might be such an interlacement of poor Peter's former and latter intentions as to create endless "lawing" before anybody came by their own—an inconvenience which would have at least the advantage of going all round.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Fred made no answer: he was too utterly depressed.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Dorothea uttered these common words with the simple sincerity of an unhappy child, visited at school.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- In uttering the last clause, Mr. Casaubon leaned over the elbow of his chair, and swayed his head up and down, apparently as a muscular outlet instead of that recapitulation which would not have been becoming.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- "I never had any caste," he would have said, if that prophecy had been uttered to him, and the quick blood would have come and gone like breath in his transparent skin.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- There was no delivering himself from his cage, however; and Will found his places and looked at his book as if he had been a school-mistress, feeling that the morning service had never been so immeasurably long before, that he was utterly ridiculous, out of temper, and miserable.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Mr. Vincy listened in profound surprise without uttering even an exclamation, a silence which in his impatient temperament was a sign of unusual emotion.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- At the time when Mr. Vincy uttered that presentiment about Rosamond, she herself had never had the idea that she should be driven to make the sort of appeal which he foresaw.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- On the contrary Lydgate was more than hurt—he was utterly confounded that she had risked herself on a strange horse without referring the matter to his wish.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- With those words uttered impetuously, Will rose, put out his hand to Rosamond, still with the air of a somnambulist, and went away.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- It was known that the daughter had married, but she was utterly gone out of sight.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- And now had come a moment in which that mould seemed in danger of being broken and utterly cast away.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- And then, too, there was the fresh smart of that disclosure about his mother's family, which if known would be an added reason why Dorothea's friends should look down upon him as utterly below her.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Her unexpected presence brought him to utter hopelessness in his own power of saying anything unpleasant; but desperation suggested a resource; he sent the groom on an unsaddled horse across the park with a pencilled note to Mrs. Cadwallader, who already knew the gossip, and would think it no compromise of herself to repeat it as often as required.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- What could he say, since what had got obstinately uppermost in his mind was the passionate love for her which he forbade himself to utter?†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Rosamond obeyed him, and he took her on his knee, but in her secret soul she was utterly aloof from him.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to imperative facts.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- There was another presence which ever since the early days of her marriage, until four months ago, had been an agreeable excitement, but that was gone: Rosamond would not confess to herself how much the consequent blank had to do with her utter ennui; and it seemed to her (perhaps she was right) that an invitation to Quallingham, and an opening for Lydgate to settle elsewhere than in Middlemarch—in London, or somewhere likely to be free from unpleasantness—would satisfy her quite well,…†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Sir Godwin's rudeness towards her and utter want of feeling ranged him with Dover and all other creditors—disagreeable people who only thought of themselves, and did not mind how annoying they were to her.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Still he went on, for his mind was as utterly narrowed into that precipitous crevice of play as if he had been the most ignorant lounger there.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- I want you to make the happiness of her life and your own, and if there is any chance that a word of warning from me may turn aside any risk to the contrary—well, I have uttered it.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- "You have been led to this, I apprehend, by some slanders concerning me uttered by that unhappy creature," said Bulstrode, anxious now to know the utmost.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- Raffles dead was the image that brought release, and indirectly he prayed for that way of release, beseeching that, if it were possible, the rest of his days here below might be freed from the threat of an ignominy which would break him utterly as an instrument of God's service.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- …before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified—the sense of utter futility in that equivocation with his conscience in dealing with the life of his accomplice, an equivocation which now turned venomously upon him with the full-grown fang of a discovered lie:—all this rushed through him like the agony of…†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Those who are hostile to me are glad to believe any libel uttered by a loose tongue against me.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *
- My practice and my reputation are utterly damned—I can see that.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Stronger than all, there was the regard for a friend's moral improvement, sometimes called her soul, which was likely to be benefited by remarks tending to gloom, uttered with the accompaniment of pensive staring at the furniture and a manner implying that the speaker would not tell what was on her mind, from regard to the feelings of her hearer.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- It came into her mind once that she would ask her father to let her go home again; but dwelling on that prospect made it seem utter dreariness to her: a married woman gone back to live with her parents—life seemed to have no meaning for her in such a position: she could not contemplate herself in it.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Dorothea had observed the animus with which Will's part in the painful story had been recalled more than once; but she had uttered no word, being checked now, as she had not been formerly in speaking of Will, by the consciousness of a deeper relation between them which must always remain in consecrated secrecy.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Do you think she would turn to look at me, or value any word I ever uttered to her again at more than a dirty feather?†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- He had spoken to her in a way that made a phrase of common politeness difficult to utter; and yet, now that he had come to the point of going away from her without further speech, he shrank from it as a brutality; he felt checked and stultified in his anger.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- The vindictive fire was still burning in him, and he could utter no word of retractation; but it was nevertheless in his mind that having come back to this hearth where he had enjoyed a caressing friendship he had found calamity seated there—he had had suddenly revealed to him a trouble that lay outside the home as well as within it.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Dorothea, completely swayed by the feeling that she was uttering, forgot everything but that she was speaking from out the heart of her own trial to Rosamond's.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- He had the sense that whatever she said was uttered in the vision of a fatality that kept them apart.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Each had been full of thoughts which neither of them could begin to utter.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- But it would be unjust not to tell, that she never uttered a word in depreciation of Dorothea, keeping in religious remembrance the generosity which had come to her aid in the sharpest crisis of her life.†
Chpt Fin. (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(2) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)