utterer

noun

utterer

noun

Etymology From utter + -er.

1

One who utters something.

  • The strange and beautiful being gazed on the spot with a look of horror; she wrung her hands as if in the helplessness of despair—a low cry came upon the wind, and its mysterious utterer had disappeared.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 49:
  • Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias.1961, Harvard Law Review, volume 74, page 457:
Related terms
utter, utteress

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