All 8 Uses of
utter
in
Howards End
- She had gone out of life vividly, her own way, and no dust was so truly dust as the contents of that heavy coffin, lowered with ceremonial until it rested on the dust of the earth, no flowers so utterly wasted as the chrysanthemums that the frost must have withered before morning.†
Part 12 *utterly = completely or totally
- She drew the curtain, and Margaret uttered a cry of despair.†
Part 33uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- But the suggestion had been uttered, and in a few minutes she took it up herself.†
Part 34
- Helen uttered cries of excitement as she found this bed obviously in its right place, that in its wrong one.†
Part 37
- Again she would have recalled the words as soon as they were uttered.†
Part 38
- Of her own tragedy Margaret never uttered a word.†
Part 40
- Over all the sun was streaming, to all the birds were singing, to all the primroses were yellow, and the speedwell blue, and the country, however they interpreted her, was uttering her cry of "now."†
Part 41 *uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- It had to be uttered once in a life, to adjust the lopsidedness of the world.†
Part 43uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
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.