certitude

• Tess was sure he had once spoken of aluminum siding with the same fervent certitude, and that he would probably find other gods and goods to worship throughout his working life. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
• To establish common sense or the prevailing mode and custom as the criterion of certitude, that is preparing the way for universal suffrage, which is, to my way of thinking, the shame of human kind I have just read also, la Chretienne by the Abbe Bautain. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• The word itself suggests "decay," but what passes for decadent rarely has anything to do with decay per se, except, perhaps, moral decay, and when moral certitude is a goal any slip from certainty is a downward slide. —  Comic Book Resources
• COM and the letter itself doesn't have the misplaced certitude, the overblown rhetoric, the baseless imputation of evil to the recipient, and over-all lack of self-awareness, that marks the truly dumb demand letter. disagree with Marco here. —  The Trademark Blog
• COM and the letter itself doesn't have the misplaced certitude, the overblown rhetoric, the baseless imputation of evil to the recipient, and over-all lack of self-awareness, that marks the truly dumb demand letter. —  The Trademark Blog

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