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.
Usage examples of "of a certainty".
Whether for the power or the beauty there, most men did not look past the honey-brown tresses curling around her pert white face, and even queens lusted after her beautyone at least did, of a certainty.
Whether for the power or the beauty there, most men did not look past the honey-brown tresses curling around her pert white face, and even queens lusted after her beauty-one at least did, of a certainty.
And, of a certainty, there is not much attraction anymore in raiding greedy clerics of their gold crucifixes and ruby-encrusted chalices.
If the war and famine in Cairhien cannot be tied to him of a certainty, he surely precipitates a greater war there, between Tear and Andor, when the Tower needs peace!
Had she been a girl, buoyed by the confidence and intolerance of youth, she might have expected him to follow his own wish and join his life with hers, damning an old and narrow custom, and she would of a certainty have reacted with anger when the failure of his courage prevented him from acting in accordance with the dictates of his heart.