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† inˈcertainty Obs.
[a. OF. incertaineté (1477 in Godef.; in Cotgr. 1611), f. incertain, after certaineté certainty.]
= uncertainty, in various senses.
1484Caxton Curiall 6 To ryse & mounte fro certaynte to Incertaynte. 1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 28 Mens..hopes full of suspicions and incertainties. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cvii, Incertenties now crowne them-selues assur'de. 1684B. Hale Pref. to Contempl. St. Man (1699) p. iii, Here thou mayest see the incertainty of Mortal Life. 1792T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) III. 330 There is great incertainty in the meaning of the term. |