All 7 Uses of
utter
in
The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- He was in an utterly unknown valley and the sea was nowhere in sight.†
Chpt 5 *utterly = completely or totally
- They were, an infallible spell to make beautiful her that uttereth it beyond the lot of mortals.†
Chpt 10 *uttereth = says (or makes a sound) with the voicestandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She uttereth" in older English, today we say "She utters."
- When I was in my cradle, a wood woman, a Dryad, spoke this verse over me: "Where sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep, To find all you seek, There is the utter East.†
Chpt 2
- But beyond that again, utter blackness as if they had come to the edge of moonless and starless night.†
Chpt 12
- He must go on into the utter east and never return into the world.†
Chpt 14
- If we sail east from here we sail to find the edge, the utter east.†
Chpt 14
- But then Reepicheep once more repeated the old prophecy: "Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep, There is the utter East."†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.