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  • noun Plural form of stammerer.

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Examples

  • Peter indeed was forward enough to speak in his own tongue, but the rest of them were no spokesmen, nor were they quick of apprehension; yet now not only the heart of the rash understands knowledge, but the tongue of the stammerers is ready to speak eloquently, Isa. xxxii.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • They shall hear another kind of stammerers when the fierce invaders 'harsh and unintelligible language commands them.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Maybe we should ask the stammerers who contributed to a Nicky Campbell phone-in on the subject which had been highlighted by the film, The King's Speech.

    Radio 5 Live's audience appreciates our unique mixture of light and shade 2011

  • I used to work with stammerers: 98% of them could talk when they were in their bathroom; it was just that little doubt in public which tied them up.

    Open champion Darren Clarke reveals he almost quit in April 2011

  • The Great British public loves an outsider, you know – in recent years X Factor and Pop Idol has made stars out of stammerers, homosexuals, obese women, goat herders and ratty Scots with terrible hair who can't stop crying – and by proclaiming himself to be a Christian virgin, Rhydian has admitted being the biggest outsider of all.

    X Factor Betting Odds: Rhydian To Win The Final? 2007

  • Then the lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be distinct: for water has broken forth in the wilderness, and a valley in the thirsty land; and the parched ground shall become pools, and a spring of water shall [rise up] in the thirsty land. '

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

    Isaiah 32. 1999

  • … It is the proper little boys who become stammerers.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Over the course of the next couple of months, Yearsley operated on about forty stammerers, all of whom, he subsequently announced, appeared wild with joy at their instantaneous cure.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Not knowing any better themselves, several hundred stutterers including some mere “stammerers” submitted themselves to the new operation.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

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