ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not given out in trade. rare.
1463. Cases bef. King’s Council (Selden), 111. Fer which cause the seid wolles ben yet as by youre seid suppliaunt unuttred.
1618. Gainsford, Glory Eng., I. ix. 77. That the countrey commodities might be vnuttered.
2. Not uttered or expressed.
1651. J. Reading, Guide Holy City, 347. Hee cannot know the unuttered secrets of the heart.
1696. Tate & Brady, Ps. cxxxix. 4. Thou know’st … My yet un-utter’d Words intent.
a. 1771. Gray, Dante, 5. Anguish, that unutter’d wrings My inmost Heart.
1798. Southey, St. Patrick’s Purgatory, xxvi. How should he pass that molten flood?… A Fiend, as in a dream, ‘Thus!’ answer’d the unutter’d thought.
1844. A. B. Welby, Poems (1867), 72. As … meeting glances tell The unuttered tale of love.
1883. J. Parker, Tyne Ch., 277. Self-control … begins upon the subtle and un-uttered thought.
absol. 1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. v. The cloudy-browed … Practicality … has in him what transcends all logic-utterance: a Congruity with the Unuttered.
