12 Verbs to Use for the Word certitude

The form that holds these certitudes of the soul may lose all its beauty by rudeness or neglect.

Descartes disputed only the certitude of the knowledge previously attained, not the possibility of knowledgefor of the latter no man is more firmly convinced than he.

whence it draws its certitude.

Her very death had given him a paradoxical certitude of her immortality.

What was a Vanity Fair, a Babel of jargons, a school for scandals, a mart of lies, an arena of passions, an atmosphere of poisons, such as that city was, in spite of wonders of art and trophies of victory and contributions of genius, to a man who loved the certitudes of heaven, and sought to escape from the entangling influences which were a hindrance to his studies and his friendships?

Thus opinion supplements the lack of certain knowledge, and serves as a guide for belief and action, wherever the general lot of mankind or individual circumstances prevent absolute certitude.

Whatever promotes these certitudes is the highest political wisdom.

They thought at first they dream'd; for 'twas offence With them to question certitude of sense, 540 Their guide in faith: but nearer when they drew, And had the faultless object full in view, Lord, how they all admired her heavenly hue! Some, who before her fellowship disdain'd, Scarce, and but scarce, from in-born rage restrain'd, Now frisk'd about her, and old kindred feign'd.

This flower represents a great certitude, without which few would be happy,subtile, mysterious, inexplicable,a great boon recognized alike by poets and moralists, Pagan and Christian; yea, identified not only with happiness, but human existence, and pertaining to the soul in its highest aspirations.

He sought certitudes,elemental truths which sophistry could not cover up.

And, in wellnigh every case, it is possible for him to give truthful answers that will conceal from his patient what he ought to conceal; for the best physician does not know the future, and his professional guesses are not to be put forward as if they were assured certitudes.

The reason, he says, generalizing from his own case, is capable only of destruction, not of construction; of discovering error, not of finding truth; of finding reasons and counter-reasons, of exciting doubt and controversy, not of vouchsafing certitude.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  certitude