149 adjectives to describe certainties

"Although we have met with the same phenomenon so frequently, that we were at length able to predict the nature of the bottom from the depth of the soundings with absolute certainty for the Atlantic and the Southern Sea, we had, perhaps, the best opportunity of observing it in our first section across the Atlantic, between Teneriffe and St. Thomas.

Finally, the recent application of steam to sea-going ships had rendered a rapid decrease in the length of the voyage from Europe a practical certainty.

This and the three next sonnets may with tolerable certainty be referred to the series written on various occasions for Vittoria Colonna. XIII.

By which it is plain, that every step in reasoning that produces knowledge, has intuitive certainty; which when the mind perceives, there is no more required but to remember it, to make the agreement or disagreement of the ideas concerning which we inquire visible and certain.

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me that on meeting the great council of our nation I am able to announce to them on grounds of reasonable certainty that the wars and troubles which have for so many years afflicted our sister nations have at length come to an end, and that the communications of peace and commerce are once more opening among them.

The evils from which France suffers in relation to the stagnancy of its population, are well known, and that their continuanceif continuance there bewill mean the downfall of the country from its position as one of the world's great powers before the close of the twentieth century, is a mathematical certainty.

Is not this dreadful certainty still as a hideous dream to me?" She had another cause of bitter grief.

This is evident, the abstract complex ideas of substances, for which their general names stand, not comprehending their real constitutions, can afford us very little universal certainty.

If, however, we cannot thus observe and calculate on certain regularities and tendencies in the world as we know it, then, not only is the appearance of design and finality an illusion, not only is that particular argument for theism cut away, but with it goes all scientific certainty, all that stands between us and the most hopeless mental and moral scepticism.

Aristotle reasoned without sufficient certainty of the major premise of his syllogisms.

Both sides had a mystic ideal, affirming it with violence and slaughter just as the multitudes have always done when moved by religious or revolutionary certainty accepted as the only truth....

One sunny morning, while Wilbur on River Street weighed the possible attractions of the livery-stable office against the immediate certainty of some pleasant hours with Rufus Paulding, off to the depot to get a load of express packages for people, Sharon in his sagging buggy pulled up to the curb before him and told him to jump in if he wanted a ride.

And therefore we shall do no injury to our knowledge, when we modestly think with ourselves, that we are so far from being able to comprehend the whole nature of the universe, and all the things contained in it, that we are not capable of a philosophical knowledge of the bodies that are about us, and make a part of us: concerning their secondary qualities, powers, and operations, we can have no universal certainty.

" It had arrived an hour before, and she was conscious of a vague sense of thankfulness that she had been spared that hour of awful certainty.

The dreadful instinctive certainty that she loved the man she had so nearly killed, took possession of him in a dark prevision of terror.

And therefore there are very few general propositions to be made concerning substances, which can carry with them undoubted certainty.

This infallible test, however, gave the melancholy certainty that the schooner was still drifting her length in rather less than two minutes.

There followed one of those incredible quarrels, as sickening as they are human, which can take place only between two people who love each other; who love each other so well that each knows with cruel certainty the surest way to wound the other; and who stab, and tear, and claw at these vulnerable spots in exact proportion to their love.

You knowthe water front, where you can hear more tongues than at Port Said, see stranger sights, and meet adventure with the joyous certainty of mediaeval times.

Both of them represented in their original forms the light of day, which disappears at nightfall but returns at dawn with unfailing certainty.

It came to me then with a curious certainty, not since so assuring, that I understood the chief marvel of nature hidden within the Story of the Resurrection, the marvel of plant and seed, father and son, the wonder of the seasons, the miracle of life.

His going away, even with no farewell at all, cast no flaw upon the miraculous certainty of that.

More would have been despatched but for the apparent certainty that the treaty of neutrality would be signed.

I might mention that I once had a third cousin whose aunt by marriage was slightly insane, so you see that I can kill you with a calm certainty that the jury will acquit me, on the ground of my hereditary insanity.

They have the intellectual vagueness, the emotional certainty, that belong to the motives of a symphony.

149 adjectives to describe  certainties