All 5 Uses of
utter
in
The Silver Chair
- Long, long afterwards, without the slightest warning, an utterly strange voice spoke.†
Chpt 9 *utterly = completely or totally
- First — as for your Ladyship's design of putting me at the head of an army of Earthmen so that I may break out into the Overworld and there, by main force, make myself king over some nation that never did me wrong — murdering their natural lords and holding their throne as a bloody and foreign tyrant — now that I know myself, I do utterly abhor and renounce it as plain villainy.†
Chpt 12
- Secondly, the Witch, in a loud, terrible voice, utterly different from all the sweet tones she had been using up till now, called out, "What are you doing?†
Chpt 12
- Such is her tender care for my honour that she would not willingly suffer any ears but her own to hear the words I utter in that frenzy.†
Chpt 11
- I have often heard your Lordship utter that name in your ravings.†
Chpt 12
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.