certitude
noun
freedom from doubt, especially in matters of faith or opinion; certainty.
uncertitude
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a word derived from
certitude.
Example Sentences
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"Is it the part of manhood to persecute a woman, Mr. Law?" she asked, her own uncertitude now showing in her tone.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
If disagreements terminating in strikes and lock-outs remained as numerous as they are at present, there would result both for the producer and consumer a condition of perilous and perhaps intolerable uncertitude.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
It must ever be recollected that these various phenomena of mind, though signs, are not infallible signs of uncertitude; they may proceed, in the particular case, from other circumstances.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
At times she poised with sickening uncertitude on the crest of a greater wave, then steadied, and leapt with the breaking water to the smoother hollow.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
