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insinuation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French insinuation, from Old French, from Latin insinuatio, from ?nsinu? (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?nju?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
insinuation (countable and uncountable, plural insinuations)
- The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
- The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
- The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner.
- That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion
- slander may be conveyed by insinuations.
Related terms
- insinuate
- insinuator
Translations
Further reading
- insinuation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- insinuation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin ?nsinu?ti?, ?nsinu?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
Noun
insinuation f (plural insinuations)
- insinuation
Related terms
- insinuer
Further reading
- “insinuation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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utterance
English
Alternative forms
- utteraunce
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t???ns/
- Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance
Etymology 1
From utter +? -ance.
Noun
utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)
- An act of uttering.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Something spoken.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- The ability to speak.
- A manner of speaking.
- (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.
Related terms
- utter
- utterable
- utterer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French oultrance.
Noun
utterance (plural utterances)
- (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
References
Further reading
- utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- cruentate
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