Both Uses of
certitude
in
Middlemarch
- Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude.†
Chpt Prel
- This time Mr. Raffles' slow wink and slight protrusion of his tongue was worse than a nightmare, because it held the certitude that it was not a nightmare, but a waking misery.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(certitude) total certainty or (more rarely) something that is certain to happen