utterer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

utter +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

utterer (plural utterers)

  1. One who utters something.
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 49:
      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.
    • 1961, Harvard Law Review, volume 74, page 457:
      Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias.

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