Crossword clues for sureness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sureness \Sure"ness\, n. The state of being sure; certainty.
For more sureness he repeats it.
--Woodward.
The law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
--Emerson.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being sure, certainty. 2 (context uncountable English) The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability. 3 (context countable rare English) The result or product of being sure.
WordNet
n. freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority]
the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand"
Usage examples of "sureness".
Ribeiro, Francisco Braga, and Teofilo Costa were cheerful companions and took him to the border and directly to the temporary camp of the Spanish guerrillero leader with a sureness that suggested a long familiarity with the rugged hills and the deep clefts of ravines that tended all to look alike to Captain Blake.
But Starling walked with sureness and confidence, and I followed, my eyes swiftly adjusting to the darkness.
Camus the aspect of an ikon, its hieratic geometry gaining in force, while the fingers of the prosthesis moved with the precision of a suprahuman will, patterning, pausing, pressing hundreds of keys in a rhythm of sureness that must obviate error.
All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.
Staggering that so huge a man should run so swiftly and keep the ball at his toe with so astounding an accuracy, but now he was away from them all, the field streaming at his feet, and in his size, strength and beauty he joined partnership with the strength and beauty of the scene, the grand type of all Cumbrian strength, sureness of purpose, largeness of grasp, as good as anything the world has seen, and as lasting.
Happily Van Alstyne prided himself on his summing up of social aspects, and with Selden for audience was eager to show the sureness of his touch.
At the second verse Knulp joined in and sang the bass part with such sureness and in such a fine deep voice that she listened happily.
Then he switched with unhurried sureness to the vast globular room I identified as the Moonbase Headquarters of the Patrol.
His mouth opened in a shout of disbelief as Garric's blade crunched through with the sureness of a hand used to jointing roasts for the inn's kitchen.
His eyes had the sureness of a gunman so quick on the draw, he believed he had no equal.
Garric used the city's sky glow and the light of the recently risen moon to help him pick his way, but the old woman moved faster and with a sureness that kept her from tripping as Garric did time after time.