Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
certainty .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Certainty.
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- noun The state or quality of being
certain .
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Examples
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An attentive rereading of the gospels can establish with equal certainness that she was clever, strong-minded, a survivor, a leader, a woman capable to weather hardship, to withhold her dignity in ambiguous and dangerous situations (pregnancy out of wedlock, to quote the most obvious), and to maneuver complex situations, including the announcement by the angel, in her own favor.
Petru Popescu: Was Mary a Template for Today's Feminism? 2009
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Lashing out of her with a jealousy that I was not the person she was with, and with a certainness that I may never be, hence our estrangement from one another.
overtaken Diary Entry overtaken 2002
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