Crossword clues for certainties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Certainty \Cer"tain*ty\, n.; pl. Certainties. [OF. certainet['e].]
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The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.
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A fact or truth unquestionable established.
Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
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(Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
Of a certainty, certainly.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of certainty English)
Usage examples of "certainties".
Possibilities reared up in front of her, certainties, and she no longer wanted to laugh.
Once, her life had been made up of rock-solid certainties, like guiding stars that never failed.
I've been doing a bunch of digging for certainties and a lot of speculating lately, and the purpose of this talk is to lay out both categories of ideas.
There I began to learn of history, art, philosophy, and music, to question the certainties of politics and piety, and to experience the pleasures of sharp wit and well-considered disagreement.
Then he had raged at her for destroying his world, for taking his certainties about life and love and women and smashing each one of them.
The old empire was receding into oblivion: the old powers dying, the old certainties going with them.
He had lost confidence in all the everyday certainties of reality, which meant he could sometimes walk through it, and even manipulate parts of it to serve his will.
Corcoran's unbalanced mind slammed through a series of insights and certainties and the answer blazed in his mind.
He does not wish his schooldays back, but he longs for the certainties which bounded his life and the hopes which kept up his spirits.