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utterless, a.|ˈʌtəlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
1. Incapable of being uttered; unutterable.
1643Milton Divorce 45 To endure a clamouring debate of utterles things. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 120 How he means to load His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought. 1840Lowell The Moon 12 Its only voice a vast dumb moan, Of utterless anguish speaking. a1893C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 271/2 Pangs of utterless desire.
b. Incapable of being expressed or described; inexpressible.
1832Moir in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 238 Cold were the heart, and bigoted indeed, Which..Could destine all that differ'd from his creed To utterless perdition. 1850S. Dobell Roman i. 14 By thine eternal youth, And coeternal utterless dishonour.
2. Incapable of utterance; speechless. rare—1.
1854S. Dobell Balder xxiii. 100 As a trusting maid who waits Her far false lover,..Chilled with the bitter day where love is not, Blighted and mute,..Stands utterless. |