Word Finder - utterances

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An act of uttering.

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Something spoken.

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The ability to speak.

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A manner of speaking.

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He has a good utterance.

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A sale made by offering to the public.

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An act of putting in circulation.

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the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes

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The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

It was one of his most trenchant utterances, full of fancy, wit, eloquence and elevated thought.

The controversies ' It was in this sense that it was understood by Dollinger, who pointed out that the definition of the dogma would commit the Church to all past official utterances of the popes, e.g.

They would indulge in prophecies of the last judgment, and back their threats with a string of strange, half-frantic and utterly unmeaning sounds, the sense of which no one with any intelligence could discover; for they were obscure gibberish, and merely furnished any fool or impostor with an occasion to twist the utterances as he chose to his own purposes.

It has been suggested that we here have recorded the utterances of glossolalists.

Jesus used the word to affirm his own utterances, not those of another person, and this usage was adopted by the church.

Their rabid utterances against anyone who doesn't share their very narrow view of God, is enough to make your flesh crawl.

However, even where teachers used a good deal of foreign language for classroom management purposes, their utterances had a somewhat formulaic quality.

Where significant recorded utterances are disputed, this is sometimes undertaken by a forensic phonetician.

Some of the utterances including idle have an oral twang to them.

V and so on, which in turn can be used to generate actual utterances.

The empirical individualism of the work, tending necessarily to limit the province of reason and extend that of faith, together with scattered utterances on special points, which gained for Biel the title of Papista Antipapista, had considerable influence in giving form to the doctrines of Luther and Melanchthon.

History may soften the contrast by discovering transitional forms, and by showing the religious interest at work in theology as well as the scientific interest affecting early utterances of religion.

The violence of his utterances led to an imprisonment at Paris for three years, during which he married a young working woman.

But so soon as men perceive upon reflection an apparent discrepancy between the utterances of their moral consciousness and certain conclusions to which theological speculation (or at a later period metaphysical and scientific inquiries) seems inevitably to lead them, they will not rest satisfied until the belief in the will's freedom (hitherto unquestioned) is upon further reflection justified or condemned.

But from these unscientific utterances to a philosophy of morals was a long process.

This law was derived partly from Moses, partly from the utterances of the later prophets, partly from oral tradition and from the commentaries and supplementary maxims of generations of students.

His temper was irritable, and his hasty utterances exposed him to retorts which he did not readily forgive.

She was brave in the face of difficulties and dangers, pure in her motives, and her utterances, some of which have been quoted, have the true ethical ring about them.

The physical philosophy and anthropology which Baader, in connexion with this, unfolds in various works, is but little instructive, and coincides in the main with the utterances of Boehme.

Before the house at Edgbaston was occupied he had established the London Oratory, with Father Faber as its superior, and there (in King William Street, Strand) he delivered a course of lectures on "The Present Position of Catholics in England," in the fifth of which he protested against the anti-Catholic utterances of Dr Achilli, an ex-Dominican friar, whom he accused in detail of numerous acts of immorality.

The proposed method enables to simulate the facial animation automatically that moves synchronously with any given utterances.

These utterances, however, reveal Paul's conviction of being a legitimate, duly authorized apostle.

However, the model can also produce novel utterances by traversing generative links.

The Apostle Paul says, " Do not despise prophetic utterances.

In other words, the symbolic value of linguistic utterances is more important than the content of what one says.

The serial ordering of vision and of action provides the primitive foundation for the patterns of ordering in speech utterances.

Natural language generation tries to eliminate part of that problem by producing natural language utterances, on the basis of a given formal input.

The same morbid and abnormal trance utterances recur in Christian revivals in every age, e.g.

Mechthild's clerico-political utterances show that she was acquainted with the " eternal gospel " of Joachim of Floris.

Sometimes, too, when a great dramatic climax has given place to a lyrical anticlimax, retrospective moods, subtleties of emotion and crowning musical thoughts press in upon Wagner's mind with a closeness that determines every word; and thus not only is the whole third act of Tristan, as Wagner said when he was working at it, of " overwhelming tragic power," but Isolde's dying utterances (which occupy the last five minutes and are, of course, totally without action or dramatic tension) were not unlike fine poetry even before the music was written.

None the less, the continued indiscretions of the emperor so incensed public opinion that, five years later, the chancellor himself was forced to side with it in obtaining from the emperor an undertaking to submit all his public utterances previously to his ministers for approval (see WILLIAM II., German emperor).

He died, it is said, on the 9th of April 1553, but actual history is quite silent save on the point that he was not alive in May of the next year, and the legends about his deathbed utterances - "La farce est jouee," "Je vais chercher un grand peut-titre," &c. - are altogether apocryphal.

Some children may communicate via gestures, nodding, or very brief utterances.

Palilalia-A complex vocal tic in which the child repeats his or her own words, songs, or other utterances.

The cryptic utterances of Yoda - "Do, or do not.

These magic users are secretive, jealous of their knowledge and prone to cryptic utterances and encoded notes.

In various speeches he sounded a note of conciliation with Indian progressive feelings, and it was agreed on his return to England that valuable help had been given by his utterances to the work of self-government in India under the new regime.

But, secondly, the pneumatic utterances technically known as speaking with tongues failed to reach this level of intelligibility; for Paul compares "a tongue" to a material object which should merely make a noise, to a pipe or harp twanged or blown at random without tune or time, to a trumpet blaring idly and not according to a code of signal notes.

None of Rudinis public utterances justify the supposition that he assumed office with the intention of allowing the alliance to lapse on its expiry in May 1892; indeed, he frankly declared it to form the basis of his foreign policy.

There is much faith in dreams, and in the utterances of certain "wise men," who practise an embryonic magic and witchcraft.

But above all, what gives the sentences of Marcus Aurelius their enduring value and fascination, and renders them superior to the utterances of Epictetus and Seneca, is that they are the gospel of his life.

The performances of Los Comuneros were attended by members of the different parties; the utterances of the different characters were taken to represent the author's personal opinions, and every speech which could be brought into connexion with current politics was applauded by one half of the house and derided by the other half.

During the progress of the campaign he kept away from public affairs, although he assumed a Cassandra-like attitude in all his utterances, and his henchmen in the press were frankly defeatist."

If the impression left upon current thought can be estimated from certain of the utterances of the court-prophet Isaiah and the Judaean countryman Micah, the light which these throw upon internal conditions must also be used to gauge the real extent of the religious changes ascribed to Hezekiah.

In Germany Jews are still rarely admitted to the rank of officers in the army, university posts are very difficult of access, Judaism and its doctrines are denounced in medieval language, and a tone of hostility prevails in many public utterances.

Hence the speculative utterances of mysticism are always more or less pantheistic in character.

Nelson's crowning triumph rendered impossible for the present all other means of attack on those elusive foes; and Napoleon's sense of the importance of that battle may be gauged, not by his public utterances on the subject, but by his persistence in forcing Prussia to close Hanover and the whole coastline of north-west Germany against British goods.

Voltaire said that his sermons surpassed those of Bossuet (whose retirement in 1669, however, practically coincided with Bourdaloue's early pulpit utterances); and there is little doubt that their simplicity and coherence, and the direct appeal which they made to hearers of all classes, gave them a superiority over the more profound sermons of Bossuet.

It was thought that martyrdom would atone for sin, and imprisoned confessors not only issued to the Churches commands which were regarded almost as inspired utterances, but granted pardons in rash profusion to those who had been excommunicated by the regular clergy, a practice which caused Cyprian and his fellow bishops much difficulty.

The Gathas alone claim to be authentic utterances of Zoroaster, his actual expressions in presence of the assembled congregation.