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CERTITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant
Synonyms:
certitude; cocksureness; overconfidence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("certitude" is a kind of...):
certainty (the state of being certain)
Context examples:
For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him,—the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He stated it as a certitude, and before his eyes began to dance the rows of figures of his royalties.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then the certitude of his ultimate success rose up in him, an able ally of hunger, and with a quick movement he slipped the coin into his pocket.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I really don't object to platitudes, he told Ruth later; but what worries me into nervousness is the pompous, smugly complacent, superior certitude with which they are uttered and the time taken to do it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And in that moment, and for the moment, she was aware of a rift that showed in her certitude—a rift through which she caught sight of the real Martin Eden, splendid and invincible; and as animal-trainers have their moments of doubt, so she, for the instant, seemed to doubt her power to tame this wild spirit of a man.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
