Declaration vs Utterance - What's the difference?
declaration | utterance |
A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
The act or process of declaring.
(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
(legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
(computing) The specification of a variable's type
An act of uttering.
* (John Milton)
Something spoken.
* , chapter=13
, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
The ability to speak.
Manner of speaking.
* Bible, Acts ii. 4
* (John Keats)
(obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
(obsolete) Putting in circulation.
The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
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*:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
As nouns the difference between declaration and utterance
is that declaration is declaration (written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief) while utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc).declaration
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(en noun)Quotations
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...Synonyms
* (written or oral indication) avowal, notice, statement * (list of items for legal purposes) notice, statement * (act or process of declaring) noticeSee also
* complaint * statutory * statutory declarationExternal links
* (wikipedia) ----utterance
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Alternative forms
* utteraunceEtymology 1
FromNoun
(en noun)- at length gave utterance to these words
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” 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.
- Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- (Francis Bacon)
