Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That cannot be uttered or expressed in words; unutterable; inexpressible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Incapable of being uttered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Incapable of being
uttered .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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He thought that the circumstances of each case depended upon "utterless facts"; and that it was practically impossible for a civil court to decide on a subject so delicate in its essence, and so imperceptible in its data.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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He thought that the circumstances of each case depended upon utterless facts; and that it was practically impossible for a civil court to decide on a subject so delicate in its essence, and so imperceptible in its data.
John Milton (1859) 1909
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His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought, 120
Hyperion 1884
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His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought, 120
Keats: Poems Published in 1820 John Keats 1808
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"clamouring debate of utterless things" which he dreaded and abhorred, while few will argue that they have increased the number of unions which answer to his conception of "the true intent of marriage."
Milton John Cann Bailey 1897
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