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utteress

English

Etymology

utter +? -ess

Noun

utteress (plural utteresses)

  1. (rare, nonce word) A woman who utters; a female utterer.
    • 1999 December 2nd, Robin Somes, uk.media.radio.archers, “Re: Next week w/e 10 Dec.…” (see the original message)
      I *did* think…we could wrap ourselves in suits of some very shiny silver foil-y sort of stuff, and wear hats with mirrors…to reflect any curse or imprecation back upon its utterer (or, in this case, utteress).

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utterless

English

Etymology

utter +? -less

Adjective

utterless (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered.
    Synonyms: ineffable, unutterable
    • 1643, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, London, p. 45,[1]
      Tis true, an adultres cannot be sham’d anough by any publick proceeding; but that woman whose honour is not appeach’t, is lesse injur’d by a silent dismission, being otherwise not illiberally dealth with, then to endure a clamouring debate of utterles things, in a busines of that civil secrecy and difficult discerning, as not to be over-much question’d by neerest friends.
    • 1820, John Keats, Hyperion, Book 2, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor and Hessey, pp. 173-174,[2]
      […] there is a noise
      Among immortals when a God gives sign,
      With hushing finger, how he means to load
      His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought,
      With thunder, and with music, and with pomp:
    • 1935, James Weldon Johnson, “If I Were Paris” in Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Penguin, 1993, p. 59,[3]
      Thin lines of care about her mouth,
      And utterless longings in her eyes.

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