Certitude
['sɜːtɪtjuːd]
Definition
(noun.) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant.
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Definition
(n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Certainty.
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Examples
- It may be said that the certitude of the existence of such a glass aided me, and that without this knowledge I would never have succeeded. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Attai n a certitude equal to that of arithmetic and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Our lives, we see with a growing certitude, are fretted and shadowed and spoilt because there is as yet no worldwide law, no certain justice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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