All 5 Uses of
utter
in
Emma
- Ten minutes would have been all that was necessary, perhaps all that was proper; and I had told my father I should certainly be at home before him—but there was no getting away, no pause; and, to my utter astonishment, I found, when he (finding me nowhere else) joined me there at last, that I had been actually sitting with them very nearly three-quarters of an hour.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- Harriet felt this too much to utter more than a few words of eager exclamation.†
Chpt 2.13-14 *
- She was quite determined not to utter a word that should hurt Jane Fairfax's feelings; and they followed the other ladies out of the room, arm in arm, with an appearance of good-will highly becoming to the beauty and grace of each.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- — He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- 'I will not say, that since I entered into the engagement I have not had some happy moments; but I can say, that I have never known the blessing of one tranquil hour:'—and the quivering lip, Emma, which uttered it, was an attestation that I felt at my heart."†
Chpt 3.11-12 *
Definitions:
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(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)