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uttering
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Word definitions for uttering in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An utterance; something speak. 2 (context legal English) The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation; uttering and publishing. vb. (present participle of utter English)
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the law of countries whose legal systems derive from English common law , uttering is a crime similar to forgery . Uttering and forgery were originally common law offences, both misdemeanours . Forgery was the creation of a forged document, with the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Utter \Ut"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Uttered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Uttering .] [OE. outren, freq. of outen to utter, put out, AS. [=u]tian to put out, eject, fr. [=u]t out. [root]198. See Out , and cf. Utter , a.] To put forth or out; to reach out. [Obs.] How ...
Usage examples of uttering.
I shall probably lie still and motionless as though dead, uttering neither sigh nor groan.
By a violent effort he rose half out of the water, waving his cap, and uttering a loud shout peculiar to sailers.
The abbe with difficulty got away from the enthusiastic thanks of Caderousse, opened the door himself, got out and mounted his horse, once more saluted the innkeeper, who kept uttering his loud farewells, and then returned by the road he had travelled in coming.
Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.
I rushed towards the staircase, clutching my hair, and uttering a groan of horror.
Terror seemed to have deprived them even of the power of uttering a cry.
She bent forwards as though to assure herself of the reality of what she saw, then, uttering a faint cry, threw herself back in her seat.
When I had ceased speaking, he thankfully raised his eyes to heaven, but without uttering a word.
Villefort seemed stupefied with astonishment, and remained gazing intently on the scene before him without uttering a word.
He returned to Mercedes with tears in his eyes and heaving breast, and without uttering a word he gave her the letter.
Valentine in the extremity of her terror joined her hands, -- for she felt that the moment had arrived to ask for courage, -- and began to pray, and while uttering little more than incoherent words, she forgot that her white shoulders had no other covering than her long hair, and that the pulsations of her heart could he seen through the lace of her nightdress.
Morrel, disengaging his hand, rushed to the bed, and after having pressed the cold lips of Valentine with his own, hurriedly left, uttering a long, deep groan of despair and anguish.
Mercedes was that her eye no longer sparkled, her lips no longer smiled, and there was now a hesitation in uttering the words which formerly sprang so fluently from her ready wit.
Morrel saw with surprise that the men who had brought him had left without being paid, or uttering a word.
By a violent effort he rose half out of the water, waving his cap, and uttering a loud shout peculiar to sailors.