Definition of certitude in English:

certitude

noun ˈsəːtɪtjuːdˈsərdəˌt(j)ud

mass noun

1Absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case.
the question may never be answered with certitude
Example sentencesExamples
- Two devastating world wars and 50 years of global conflict later, it's easy to laugh at the naïve certitude of Angell's thesis, but at the time such certitude was widely and deeply held.
- One has certitude derived from a conviction that she is doctrinally correct.
- ‘The moral certitude of the radicals was awesome,’ Field says.
- Certainly in this book, his fine poems about his family represent an enquiry into his own roots, a questioning of his own motives, which is lacking in his earlier and middle poems with their pristine certitude.
- They were given with absolute certitude, a staccato recitation of poll numbers, grand strategy, and historical analogies.
- The stories are awful and fascinating, yet it recreates the utter human chaos with character economy, tact and absolute certitude.
- But this administration's outward certitude amid undisclosed intelligence-community doubts was more selective, and thus more misleading, than it needed to be.
- The title of the piece was Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta and it skillfully attacked the dictatorship with an arsenal of reason, facts and moral certitude.
- Ally this certitude to an almost faultless ear, a sureness of touch, and his first three books are a remarkable achievement for a poet not yet 30.
- When one sees the words ‘Government Superannuation Fund’ one has a sense of some certitude, some certainty, but there is none.
- All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch.
- But that did not increase my certitude that he was indeed the answer to my prayer for I was already, by the grace of Heaven, as certain as I could be.
- This does not mean that we should reject the findings of those efforts outright; they are helpful to an extent, but they ultimately cannot achieve the level of certitude that historians of a more positivist age claimed for them.
- But some analysts believe the commodity can only be booming for at least one more year and it is no longer possible to say with certitude the frequency and amplitude of cyclical movements in steel prices.
- It should grow in self confidence and regain its lost conviction and certitude in its own faith: a conviction which enabled the ancient Muslims to meet all temporal challenges.
- True, certitude of convictions can signify moral strength, but that's so rare.
- So it's very important to understand that he provided us at some very crucial moments with context and certitude, with things we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, but we knew we were right.
- People are looking for the clear answers, right and wrong, to give certitude in the time of great uncertainty, when no one knows what will happen next.
- I mean, but would I ever say with absolute, you know, 100% certitude that we're safe?
- But I think - okay, I also hope - that Voegelin is right to suggest that, in the modern world, sincere faith reduces rather than increases the risk of excessive existential certitude.
Synonyms
certainty, confidence, sureness, positiveness, conviction, reliability, assuredness, assurance
1. 1.1count noun Something that someone firmly believes is true.
  the collapse of the old political certitudes in eastern Europe
  Example sentencesExamples
  Still, we are in danger of prematurely embracing certitudes and losing open-mindedness.
  The early certitudes included the belief that the Taliban regime would implode, that it would be easy to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan, and that the United States would be able to accomplish this task.
  They had hoped for scientific certitudes and now they are being told that science cannot give them this solace.
  Italian is the language that provides an ethnic voice for unexpected, changing interpretations of the American master narrative from unqualified certitudes to recognition of the mystery of unknown effects.
  For the certitudes its people are now forced to rely upon are ancient - if partial - truths.
  English eyes scour the English horizon for the certitudes of English corporatism, and what they see are multinationals who, to an unwelcome extent, dictate the pace and impose the qualitative standards of English life.
  Despite the growth of science and its certitudes, there are things that defy a scientific explanation, she maintains.
  The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes.
  Constitutional law is rife with clashing certitudes generated by too-clever theories purporting to illuminate the one valid approach to construing the Constitution.
  In his writing, this writer whom I had never met, Pico Iyer, unremittingly challenged my world and its certitudes.
  How timely, then, is the appearance of several important books that call these flawed and dangerous certitudes into question.
  Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes.
  This decision involving all being expresses the impossibility of ever stopping, whether it be at some consolation or some truth, at the interests or results of an action, or with the certitudes of knowledge and belief.
  I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
  We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh.
  The human sciences, serving as a conservative guarantee against this tide of change, rigidly reinforced conventional certitudes about racial, social, sexual, and political hierarchies.
  Whether we celebrate or bemoan the loss of the old Catholic certitudes, we need at least to be alert to what values may fill the space left by them.
  They are people for whom reality is probably less important than their ideology, and their moral certitudes.
  As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives.
  Winterbottom himself seemed to be prepared for the sort of criticism the film would elicit in opting out of making such certitudes.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin certitudo, from certus 'certain'.

Definition of certitude in US English:

certitude

nounˈsərdəˌt(j)udˈsərdəˌt(y)o͞od

1Absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case.
the question may never be answered with certitude
Example sentencesExamples
- Two devastating world wars and 50 years of global conflict later, it's easy to laugh at the naïve certitude of Angell's thesis, but at the time such certitude was widely and deeply held.
- It should grow in self confidence and regain its lost conviction and certitude in its own faith: a conviction which enabled the ancient Muslims to meet all temporal challenges.
- One has certitude derived from a conviction that she is doctrinally correct.
- The title of the piece was Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta and it skillfully attacked the dictatorship with an arsenal of reason, facts and moral certitude.
- I mean, but would I ever say with absolute, you know, 100% certitude that we're safe?
- True, certitude of convictions can signify moral strength, but that's so rare.
- So it's very important to understand that he provided us at some very crucial moments with context and certitude, with things we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, but we knew we were right.
- But I think - okay, I also hope - that Voegelin is right to suggest that, in the modern world, sincere faith reduces rather than increases the risk of excessive existential certitude.
- Ally this certitude to an almost faultless ear, a sureness of touch, and his first three books are a remarkable achievement for a poet not yet 30.
- They were given with absolute certitude, a staccato recitation of poll numbers, grand strategy, and historical analogies.
- But that did not increase my certitude that he was indeed the answer to my prayer for I was already, by the grace of Heaven, as certain as I could be.
- But this administration's outward certitude amid undisclosed intelligence-community doubts was more selective, and thus more misleading, than it needed to be.
- The stories are awful and fascinating, yet it recreates the utter human chaos with character economy, tact and absolute certitude.
- This does not mean that we should reject the findings of those efforts outright; they are helpful to an extent, but they ultimately cannot achieve the level of certitude that historians of a more positivist age claimed for them.
- ‘The moral certitude of the radicals was awesome,’ Field says.
- But some analysts believe the commodity can only be booming for at least one more year and it is no longer possible to say with certitude the frequency and amplitude of cyclical movements in steel prices.
- People are looking for the clear answers, right and wrong, to give certitude in the time of great uncertainty, when no one knows what will happen next.
- When one sees the words ‘Government Superannuation Fund’ one has a sense of some certitude, some certainty, but there is none.
- All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch.
- Certainly in this book, his fine poems about his family represent an enquiry into his own roots, a questioning of his own motives, which is lacking in his earlier and middle poems with their pristine certitude.
Synonyms
certainty, confidence, sureness, positiveness, conviction, reliability, assuredness, assurance
1. 1.1 Something that someone firmly believes is true.
  his certitude that “we're number one.”
  Example sentencesExamples
  This decision involving all being expresses the impossibility of ever stopping, whether it be at some consolation or some truth, at the interests or results of an action, or with the certitudes of knowledge and belief.
  Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes.
  Whether we celebrate or bemoan the loss of the old Catholic certitudes, we need at least to be alert to what values may fill the space left by them.
  In his writing, this writer whom I had never met, Pico Iyer, unremittingly challenged my world and its certitudes.
  For the certitudes its people are now forced to rely upon are ancient - if partial - truths.
  Despite the growth of science and its certitudes, there are things that defy a scientific explanation, she maintains.
  The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes.
  How timely, then, is the appearance of several important books that call these flawed and dangerous certitudes into question.
  Winterbottom himself seemed to be prepared for the sort of criticism the film would elicit in opting out of making such certitudes.
  Italian is the language that provides an ethnic voice for unexpected, changing interpretations of the American master narrative from unqualified certitudes to recognition of the mystery of unknown effects.
  The human sciences, serving as a conservative guarantee against this tide of change, rigidly reinforced conventional certitudes about racial, social, sexual, and political hierarchies.
  Constitutional law is rife with clashing certitudes generated by too-clever theories purporting to illuminate the one valid approach to construing the Constitution.
  English eyes scour the English horizon for the certitudes of English corporatism, and what they see are multinationals who, to an unwelcome extent, dictate the pace and impose the qualitative standards of English life.
  They had hoped for scientific certitudes and now they are being told that science cannot give them this solace.
  Still, we are in danger of prematurely embracing certitudes and losing open-mindedness.
  As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives.
  They are people for whom reality is probably less important than their ideology, and their moral certitudes.
  I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
  The early certitudes included the belief that the Taliban regime would implode, that it would be easy to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan, and that the United States would be able to accomplish this task.
  We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin certitudo, from certus ‘certain’.

单词	certitude
释义	Definition of certitude in English: certitude noun ˈsəːtɪtjuːdˈsərdəˌt(j)ud mass noun 1Absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case. the question may never be answered with certitude Example sentencesExamples Two devastating world wars and 50 years of global conflict later, it's easy to laugh at the naïve certitude of Angell's thesis, but at the time such certitude was widely and deeply held. One has certitude derived from a conviction that she is doctrinally correct. ‘The moral certitude of the radicals was awesome,’ Field says. Certainly in this book, his fine poems about his family represent an enquiry into his own roots, a questioning of his own motives, which is lacking in his earlier and middle poems with their pristine certitude. They were given with absolute certitude, a staccato recitation of poll numbers, grand strategy, and historical analogies. The stories are awful and fascinating, yet it recreates the utter human chaos with character economy, tact and absolute certitude. But this administration's outward certitude amid undisclosed intelligence-community doubts was more selective, and thus more misleading, than it needed to be. The title of the piece was Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta and it skillfully attacked the dictatorship with an arsenal of reason, facts and moral certitude. Ally this certitude to an almost faultless ear, a sureness of touch, and his first three books are a remarkable achievement for a poet not yet 30. When one sees the words ‘Government Superannuation Fund’ one has a sense of some certitude, some certainty, but there is none. All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch. But that did not increase my certitude that he was indeed the answer to my prayer for I was already, by the grace of Heaven, as certain as I could be. This does not mean that we should reject the findings of those efforts outright; they are helpful to an extent, but they ultimately cannot achieve the level of certitude that historians of a more positivist age claimed for them. But some analysts believe the commodity can only be booming for at least one more year and it is no longer possible to say with certitude the frequency and amplitude of cyclical movements in steel prices. It should grow in self confidence and regain its lost conviction and certitude in its own faith: a conviction which enabled the ancient Muslims to meet all temporal challenges. True, certitude of convictions can signify moral strength, but that's so rare. So it's very important to understand that he provided us at some very crucial moments with context and certitude, with things we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, but we knew we were right. People are looking for the clear answers, right and wrong, to give certitude in the time of great uncertainty, when no one knows what will happen next. I mean, but would I ever say with absolute, you know, 100% certitude that we're safe? But I think - okay, I also hope - that Voegelin is right to suggest that, in the modern world, sincere faith reduces rather than increases the risk of excessive existential certitude. Synonyms certainty, confidence, sureness, positiveness, conviction, reliability, assuredness, assurance 1.1count noun Something that someone firmly believes is true. the collapse of the old political certitudes in eastern Europe Example sentencesExamples Still, we are in danger of prematurely embracing certitudes and losing open-mindedness. The early certitudes included the belief that the Taliban regime would implode, that it would be easy to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan, and that the United States would be able to accomplish this task. They had hoped for scientific certitudes and now they are being told that science cannot give them this solace. Italian is the language that provides an ethnic voice for unexpected, changing interpretations of the American master narrative from unqualified certitudes to recognition of the mystery of unknown effects. For the certitudes its people are now forced to rely upon are ancient - if partial - truths. English eyes scour the English horizon for the certitudes of English corporatism, and what they see are multinationals who, to an unwelcome extent, dictate the pace and impose the qualitative standards of English life. Despite the growth of science and its certitudes, there are things that defy a scientific explanation, she maintains. The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes. Constitutional law is rife with clashing certitudes generated by too-clever theories purporting to illuminate the one valid approach to construing the Constitution. In his writing, this writer whom I had never met, Pico Iyer, unremittingly challenged my world and its certitudes. How timely, then, is the appearance of several important books that call these flawed and dangerous certitudes into question. Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes. This decision involving all being expresses the impossibility of ever stopping, whether it be at some consolation or some truth, at the interests or results of an action, or with the certitudes of knowledge and belief. I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. The human sciences, serving as a conservative guarantee against this tide of change, rigidly reinforced conventional certitudes about racial, social, sexual, and political hierarchies. Whether we celebrate or bemoan the loss of the old Catholic certitudes, we need at least to be alert to what values may fill the space left by them. They are people for whom reality is probably less important than their ideology, and their moral certitudes. As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives. Winterbottom himself seemed to be prepared for the sort of criticism the film would elicit in opting out of making such certitudes. Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin certitudo, from certus 'certain'. Definition of certitude in US English: certitude nounˈsərdəˌt(j)udˈsərdəˌt(y)o͞od 1Absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case. the question may never be answered with certitude Example sentencesExamples Two devastating world wars and 50 years of global conflict later, it's easy to laugh at the naïve certitude of Angell's thesis, but at the time such certitude was widely and deeply held. It should grow in self confidence and regain its lost conviction and certitude in its own faith: a conviction which enabled the ancient Muslims to meet all temporal challenges. One has certitude derived from a conviction that she is doctrinally correct. The title of the piece was Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta and it skillfully attacked the dictatorship with an arsenal of reason, facts and moral certitude. I mean, but would I ever say with absolute, you know, 100% certitude that we're safe? True, certitude of convictions can signify moral strength, but that's so rare. So it's very important to understand that he provided us at some very crucial moments with context and certitude, with things we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, but we knew we were right. But I think - okay, I also hope - that Voegelin is right to suggest that, in the modern world, sincere faith reduces rather than increases the risk of excessive existential certitude. Ally this certitude to an almost faultless ear, a sureness of touch, and his first three books are a remarkable achievement for a poet not yet 30. They were given with absolute certitude, a staccato recitation of poll numbers, grand strategy, and historical analogies. But that did not increase my certitude that he was indeed the answer to my prayer for I was already, by the grace of Heaven, as certain as I could be. But this administration's outward certitude amid undisclosed intelligence-community doubts was more selective, and thus more misleading, than it needed to be. The stories are awful and fascinating, yet it recreates the utter human chaos with character economy, tact and absolute certitude. This does not mean that we should reject the findings of those efforts outright; they are helpful to an extent, but they ultimately cannot achieve the level of certitude that historians of a more positivist age claimed for them. ‘The moral certitude of the radicals was awesome,’ Field says. But some analysts believe the commodity can only be booming for at least one more year and it is no longer possible to say with certitude the frequency and amplitude of cyclical movements in steel prices. People are looking for the clear answers, right and wrong, to give certitude in the time of great uncertainty, when no one knows what will happen next. When one sees the words ‘Government Superannuation Fund’ one has a sense of some certitude, some certainty, but there is none. All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch. Certainly in this book, his fine poems about his family represent an enquiry into his own roots, a questioning of his own motives, which is lacking in his earlier and middle poems with their pristine certitude. Synonyms certainty, confidence, sureness, positiveness, conviction, reliability, assuredness, assurance 1.1 Something that someone firmly believes is true. his certitude that “we're number one.” Example sentencesExamples This decision involving all being expresses the impossibility of ever stopping, whether it be at some consolation or some truth, at the interests or results of an action, or with the certitudes of knowledge and belief. Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes. Whether we celebrate or bemoan the loss of the old Catholic certitudes, we need at least to be alert to what values may fill the space left by them. In his writing, this writer whom I had never met, Pico Iyer, unremittingly challenged my world and its certitudes. For the certitudes its people are now forced to rely upon are ancient - if partial - truths. Despite the growth of science and its certitudes, there are things that defy a scientific explanation, she maintains. The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes. How timely, then, is the appearance of several important books that call these flawed and dangerous certitudes into question. Winterbottom himself seemed to be prepared for the sort of criticism the film would elicit in opting out of making such certitudes. Italian is the language that provides an ethnic voice for unexpected, changing interpretations of the American master narrative from unqualified certitudes to recognition of the mystery of unknown effects. The human sciences, serving as a conservative guarantee against this tide of change, rigidly reinforced conventional certitudes about racial, social, sexual, and political hierarchies. Constitutional law is rife with clashing certitudes generated by too-clever theories purporting to illuminate the one valid approach to construing the Constitution. English eyes scour the English horizon for the certitudes of English corporatism, and what they see are multinationals who, to an unwelcome extent, dictate the pace and impose the qualitative standards of English life. They had hoped for scientific certitudes and now they are being told that science cannot give them this solace. Still, we are in danger of prematurely embracing certitudes and losing open-mindedness. As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives. They are people for whom reality is probably less important than their ideology, and their moral certitudes. I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes. The early certitudes included the belief that the Taliban regime would implode, that it would be easy to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan, and that the United States would be able to accomplish this task. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin certitudo, from certus ‘certain’.
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