a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.]
1. Incapable of being uttered; unutterable.
1643. Milton, Divorce, 45. To endure a clamouring debate of utterles things.
1820. Keats, Hyperion, II. 120. How he means to load His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought.
1840. Lowell, The Moon, 12. Its only voice a vast dumb moan, Of utterless anguish speaking.
a. 1893. Chr. G. Rossetti, Poems (1904), 271/2. Pangs of utterless desire.
b. Incapable of being expressed or described; inexpressible.
1832. Moir, in Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 238. Cold were the heart, and bigoted indeed, Which … Could destine all that differ’d from his creed To utterless perdition.
1850. S. Dobell, Roman, i. 14. By thine eternal youth, And coeternal utterless dishonour.
2. Incapable of utterance; speechless. rare–1.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxiii. 100. As a trusting maid who waits Her far false lover,… Chilled with the bitter day where love is not, Blighted and mute,… Stands utterless.
