Adjective : her utter abandonment to grief. ,an utter denial. From Dictionary.com.
John, I did try to strike you with the utterness of that perversity on the Abergavenny thread!. From Wordnik.com. [Uttoxeter | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
At one time, before we were well out of the Arboretum, our eyes met, and there was something so sad and mild and strange in the burn of her gaze that I felt her frank spirit was unveiling itself in an utterness of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Even now, as I sit here in the stillness of desperation, afraid of I know not what, trembling with a strange dread of some impending doom, gazing in fright backward along the shores of the years whereon I see the wrecks of a thousand hopes, the destruction of every noble aspiration, the ruin of every noble resolve, I cry aloud against the utterness of the destroyer. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
Whispers of a forgotten dream, that wakes with such utterness. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
This could help explain the utterness of Koestler's surrender to Communism. From Wordnik.com. [bookforum.com] Reference
You who have never beheld these things know not the utterness of loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference
It took time for him to realize the utterness with which his plans had collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West] Reference
"I cannot find words in which to tell you my shame, and the utterness of my defeat.". From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Mahbub snapped his fingers to show the utterness of that end, and his eyes blazed like red coals. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
I have no patience to make phrases about it – for the moment it seems utterness of doubt and of loss. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910] Reference
In the utterness of the self-abnegation of the genuine Protestant there is something approaching the heroic. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Such are the inconsistencies of the heart, and such, while they prevent our perfection, redeem us from the utterness of vice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
Hence, perhaps, the imminence of the perils from which he had so narrowly escaped, hence the utterness of his present destitution. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
And even then, in that awful hour, he had not felt the utterness of misery such as came to him when he saw that his work in Howrah was undone. From Wordnik.com. [Rung Ho]
There is a sense of fatality in the singular mournfulness and majesty which belong to the ruins of Heidelberg, contrasting the vastness of the strength with the utterness of the ruin. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrims of the Rhine] Reference
And I thought the cry to have an utterness of supplication within it; so that I grew desperate to up and go to running; yet did curb such foolishness, and stayed very hushed, to listen. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 7] Reference
I have paused to dream over that varying and eloquent countenance, the low soft tone of that tender voice, till the book has fallen from my hands, and I have started to find the utterness of my desolation!. From Wordnik.com. [Falkland, Complete] Reference
As soon as this charge against the Vicomte was made known (and it was known the next morning), the extent of his debts and the utterness of his ruin (before scarcely conjectured or wholly unheeded) became public through the medium of the journals, and furnished an obvious motive for the crime of which he was accused. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
He sat in his chair, and brooded over all his life, and realized the utterness of his failure; and nothing could rouse him -- not even the intelligence that his enemy, Sir Archibald, having by the death of his aunt, Miss Tremount, come into an inheritance of upward of seventy thousand pounds, was buying up the mortgages, and would probably foreclose on him when he got him thoroughly in his power. From Wordnik.com. [Archibald Malmaison] Reference
This could help explain the utterness of Koestler’s surrender to Communism. From Wordnik.com. [The Zealot] Reference
A prosperous person; rather that of the unhorsed knight who acknowledges the utterness of his defeat and finds humour in the very fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Lee Shore] Reference
And the House was monstrous and huge, and full of quiet lights; and it was truly as that there had been no Sound ever in that House through Eternity; but yet was it as that the heart did think each moment to see quiet and shrouded figures within, and yet never were they seen; and this I do but set down that I bring all home unto your hearts also, as that you crouched there with me in those low moss-bushes, there beside the Great Road, and did look upward unto that Monstrous House of Everlasting Silence, and did feel the utterness of silence to hang about it in the night; and to know in your spirits the quiet threat that lived silent there within. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 7] Reference
I don't say it rightly; there are no words that will express the utterness of their abdication. ". From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Shapes] Reference
"Thou deceivest thyself in the divine passion of the hour: thou canst not foresee the utterness of the desolation to which thou wouldst doom thy life. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
And its utterness. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
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