utterless

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,

     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,

     […] 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,

     Thin lines of care about her mouth,

     And utterless longings in her eyes.

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