Hypertext Webster Gateway: "utterance"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Utterance \Ut"ter*ance\, n. [F. outrance. See {Outrance}.]
The last extremity; the end; death; outrance. [Obs.]

Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our
men to skirmish one against another to the utterance.
--Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Utterance \Ut"ter*ance\, n.
1. The act of uttering. Specifically:
(a) Sale by offering to the public. [Obs.] --Bacon.
(b) Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false
coin, or of forged notes.
(c) Vocal expression; articulation; speech.

At length gave utterance to these words.
--Milton.

2. Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.

They . . . began to speak with other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them utterance. --Acts ii. 4.

O, how unlike To that large utterance of the early
gods! --Keats.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

utterance
n : sounds uttered for auditory communication

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