utteraunce
English edit
Noun edit
utteraunce (plural utteraunces)
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French oultrance.
Noun edit
utteraunce
- the utmost extremity (of a fight etc.)
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “liij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)