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    certitude


    1. ‖ Instead, Evil has acquired a subjective meaning; that is to say, lacking certitude or prone to conventional (or essential) assumptions whose questionable propositions render formal interpretations problematical, if not (morally or ethically) judgmental because of their underlying ―uncertainty,‖ thereby raising the question: what constitutes Good, for that matter? Plato argued that ―which we call evil is merely ignorance and that good is that which everyone desires‖


    2. The mind was somehow in the brain, but was it of the brain? This was entertained with a hopeful kind of certitude but gave hints in a way little understood, that it was inexplicably divorced from it


    3. Alas their very instruments increasingly seem to be undermining this certitude


    4. Given the certitude of their understanding of the fundamental, unalterable course of history, they, and they alone, are privileged to operate under the presumption that the ends justify the means


    5. Those young, supple minds are susceptible to one-sided, collective political arguments accompanied by the emotional certitude of ‘authority’ (professors)


    6. Their certitude of the “injustice” of the capitalist economy requires a dedication to “social justice” (as they define it) and literal, material “equality of all” except for the ‘liberals’ and the academic intelligentsia who believe that they are “more equal than equal,” (Italics mine) as labeled by author George Orwell in describing the pig leaders in his Animal Farm


    7. This was their last chance to be stimulated and shaken out of their boring certitude that all they had to do was follow directions and their lives would be complete


    8. There was, indeed, something disquieting about the calm tranquility of its aspect, a suggestion of more than human knowledge, of a profound certitude beyond human assurance


    9. I stood there not knowing what to say but feeling a profound peace that I still can't explain and I knew with great certitude that you would be well


    10. Is Rahul really a ‘dud’? I hardly know him at all to answer that with any certitude, but what I will say is that he has singularly failed to show any quality that marks him out as a leader who can lift a struggling party

    11. It has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men’s lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude


    12. It has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from mens’ lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude


    13. There was the same easy assurance, the same certitude that if she praised he was bound to be delighted, the same incapacity for remaining serious, which he remembered in Charles Street, and which had been characteristic of every one of the foolish women he met at her house


    14. � When we say, simply, "No," to the exercise of that dominator perspective, we inherently acknowledge its power and certitude


    15. have absolute certitude about in this life, I believe that a person can increase the


    16. It is important to note that this transformation does not require both parties to question their certitude


    17. He must have known, with a kind of certitude that he felt in his gut, that he finally had in his grasp what had eluded him for years


    18. Vronsky’s life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do


    19. A little girl whose courage and love had reached out and broken his armor of certitude and breached the fortress of faith about his heart


    20. Father Beron was dead; but the sickening certitude prevented Dr

    21. It was on the tip of Charles's tongue to say that only the late Capataz de Cargadores could have been employed with some chance of success and the certitude of discretion


    22. But the necessity of overcoming small obstacles becomes wearisome to a self-confident personality as much by the certitude of success as by the monotony of effort


    23. Raffles' slow wink and slight protrusion of his tongue was worse than a nightmare, because it held the certitude that it was not a nightmare, but a waking misery


    24. It was a pity to be obliged to reinvestigate the certitude of the moment itself and repeat how it had come to me as a revelation that the inconceivable communion I then surprised was a matter, for either party, of habit


    25. I quailed even though my certitude that she thoroughly saw was never greater than at that instant, and in the immediate need to defend myself I called it passionately to witness


    26. He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame


    27. And yet the evidence points, with increasing certitude, to bankruptcy


    28. I thought and thought, but could not puzzle out the Dream; still I had great Certitude that all would presently be well


    29. Dividends to be paid during the term of the option are also knowable, given the existing dividends declared or the current dividend policy, to a very high degree of certitude, particularly for options with a relatively short time to expiration


    30. The companies could not be figured with certitude either way

    31. Vronsky's life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do


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    Synonyms for "certitude"

    certitude cocksureness overconfidence

    "certitude" definitions

    total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant