All 3 Uses of
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.†
Chpt 5
- And what an utter intellectual stagnation it reveals!†
Chpt 6 *
- There was the madness of pride in every word he uttered.†
Chpt 10 *
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)