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US
/ˈsɝtəˌtud/
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[ UK /sˈɜːtɪtjˌuːd/ ]
[ UK /sˈɜːtɪtjˌuːd/ ]
NOUN
- total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant
How To Use certitude In A Sentence
- This certitude explains to this bigot why he has such a self-satisfied smirk in his photo.
- Grant us a sense of confidence and certitude that challenges all doubt and disappointment.
- Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference. Camilla
- Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
- As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives.
- Wales - a country with incertitude carved into its genes - is beginning to find its confidence. Archive 2008-09-01
- All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch.
- So it's very important to understand that he provided us at some very crucial moments with context and certitude, with things we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, but we knew we were right.
- It is worthy of notice, as regards the use of English terms, that Newman reserves the term certitude for the state of mind, and employs the word certainty to describe the condition of the evidence of a proposition. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- His very titles reflect bleakness, guilt, incertitude.