English edit

Noun edit

utteraunce (plural utteraunces)

  1. Obsolete form of utterance.

Middle English edit

Etymology edit

From Old French oultrance.

Noun edit

utteraunce

  1. 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
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