Both Uses of
utter
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- He complain'd to me that they were grievously calumniated by the zealots of other persuasions, and charg'd with abominable principles and practices, to which they were utter strangers.†
- My allegation on the contrary, that it met with such approbation as to leave no doubt of our being able to raise two thousand pounds by voluntary donations, they considered as a most extravagant supposition, and utterly impossible.†
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Definition:
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(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)