Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Publishing; circulation.
  • noun Utterance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of utter.
  • noun An utterance; something spoken.
  • noun law The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation; uttering and publishing.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word uttering.

Examples

  • Further, he was put on notice concerning the adverse legal consequences which would result if his intentional conduct in uttering his derogatory, disparaging, damaging, and false statements continnued.

    Colorado State Defense Force 2010

  • “The left have no shortness of breath in uttering contempt for Mr. Steyn, or the human rights of terrorist families, but are scarcely heard to utter a word about the real crimes against humanity.”

    And They Have Human Rights Commissions In Canada? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • There was a thrill in uttering such “adult” words as “soul” and “die”, a pleasure in the antique inverted syntax (even the sort of middle-voiced “lay me” for “lay myself”), a pleasure in orderly rhythms and rhymes that paradoxically both contained and set free a mysterious world where not all endings were happy — that is, the world.

    The Rainbow Connection : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Transgressing and denying the Lord, and turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

    Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives 2007

  • Canada could not stand where she is today were it not that we believed that no advance was possible except so far as the individual rose to his opportunity and fulfilled his duty, whether as a citizen, or in uttering his opinions as they had been uttered today, or in the university class-room, or wherever it might be.

    The Proper Limitations of State Interference 1924

  • In twos and threes and groups they strayed along, shaking hands and uttering the Tahitian word of greeting -- Ioarana, pronounced yo-rah-nah.

    Chapter 12 1913

  • In twos and threes and groups they strayed along, shaking hands and uttering the Tahitian word of greeting — Iaorana, pronounced yo-rah-nah.

    "The High Seat Of Abundance" 1908

  • She turned to the men and began to talk to them in Swahili, repeating emphatically what she had just said to Kingozi in English, uttering her commands.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It was easy to be taciturn with Heyst, who had plunged himself into an abyss of meditation over books, and remained in it till the shadow of Wang falling across the page, and the sound of a rough, low voice uttering the Malay word

    Victory Joseph Conrad 1890

  • A Persian has likewise no hesitation in uttering the salutation of Salāmun Aleikoom, to

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.