Utterless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Incapable of being uttered. archaic, literary, not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From utter + -less.

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