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utter
in
Anne Of Green Gables
(Edited)

Gossamers glimmered like threads of silver among the trees and the fir boughs and tassels seemed to utter friendly speech.
p. 61.2

utter = say
It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
p. 80.5

unuttered = not said

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unuttered means not and reverses the meaning of uttered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
She clasped her hands together, gave a piercing shriek, and then flung herself face downward on the bed, crying and writhing in an utter abandonment of disappointment and despair.
p. 97.1

utter = complete or total
If she isn't she's utterly bad.
p. 97.2

utterly = completely or totally
Gilbert Blythe was trying to make Anne Shirley look at him and failing utterly, because Anne was at that moment totally oblivious not only to the very existence of Gilbert Blythe, but of every other scholar in Avonlea school itself.
p. 107.2

utterly = completely
It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy, but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable.
p. 111.2 *
For a moment Marilla looked things not lawful to be uttered.
p. 146.9

uttered = said aloud
There's a white lady walks along the brook just about this time of the night and wrings her hands and utters wailing cries.
p. 160.3

utters = makes with the voice
Oh, Marilla, you little know how utterly wretched I am.
p. 211.2

utterly = completely
Diana flung the paper on the table and herself on Anne's bed, utterly breathless and incapable of further speech.
p. 256.2
"You did just splendidly, Anne," puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.
p. 256.4

uttered = said
Her knees trembled, her heart fluttered, a horrible faintness came over her; not a word could she utter, and the next moment she would have fled from the platform despite the humiliation which, she felt, must ever after be her portion if she did so.
p. 264.4 *

utter = say

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(1) (utter as in: utter stupidity)
complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
(2) (utter as in: utter a complaint)
say something or make a sound with the voice
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.

utter in Anne Of Green Gables (Edited)

utter
in
Anne Of Green Gables
(Edited)