utterance

An act of, or the process of, uttering.countableuncountable

• July 1857, The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review Mathematics and Poetry are … the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.countableuncountable

• And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
• To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

The ability to speak.countableuncountable

• Mrs. Weston kissed her with tears of joy; and when she could find utterance, assured her, that this protestation had done her more good than any thing else in the world could do.

A manner of speaking.countableuncountable

• He has a good utterance.

A sale made by offering to the public.countableobsoleteuncountable

• The clothemakers[…] had great profite and good utterance of the sayd cloth

An act of putting in circulation.countableobsoleteuncountable

• the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes

The utmost extremity, especially of a fight; bodily harm or death.archaicliterary

• To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to th' utterance.