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  • 41certain — see children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts nothing is certain but death and taxes nothing is certain but the unforeseen …

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  • 42CERTAIN — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index certain noun certainty, decision, fate (2), sureness adjective certain (2), decided, definite, fated, sure (2) verb …

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  • 43certain — [13] Certain comes ultimately from Latin certus ‘sure, fixed’, which derived from the past participle of the verb cernere ‘decide’. The Latin adjective was extended in Vulgar Latin to *certānus, which passed into English via Old French certain.… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 44certain — [13] Certain comes ultimately from Latin certus ‘sure, fixed’, which derived from the past participle of the verb cernere ‘decide’. The Latin adjective was extended in Vulgar Latin to *certānus, which passed into English via Old French certain.… …

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  • 45certain — See: FOR SURE or FOR CERTAIN …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 46certain — See: FOR SURE or FOR CERTAIN …

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  • 47Certain — Certitude Voir « certitude » sur le Wiktionnaire …

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  • 48certain — adjective /sɜːtn,sɝtn,sɝʔn̩,ˈsɝtən,ˈsɝt̚n̩/ Sure, positive, not doubting. I was certain of my decision. Syn: sure Ant: uncertain See Also: certainty …

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  • 49certain — See certain, certainly, sure, surely …

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  • 50certain — Synonyms and related words: a, a certain, absolute, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, agape, agog, all agog, an, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, any, any one, apodictic, ascertained, assured, atomic, attestative,… …

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