All 13 Uses of
certitude
in
Lord Jim
- He could detect no trace of emotion in himself, and the final effect of a staggering event was that, unnoticed and apart from the noisy crowd of boys, he exulted with fresh certitude in his avidity for adventure, and in a sense of many-sided courage.†
Chpt 1
- They appeared to live in a crazy maze of plans, hopes, dangers, enterprises, ahead of civilisation, in the dark places of the sea; and their death was the only event of their fantastic existence that seemed to have a reasonable certitude of achievement.†
Chpt 2
- Jim on the bridge was penetrated by the great certitude of unbounded safety and peace that could be read on the silent aspect of nature like the certitude of fostering love upon the placid tenderness of a mother's face.†
Chpt 3
- Jim on the bridge was penetrated by the great certitude of unbounded safety and peace that could be read on the silent aspect of nature like the certitude of fostering love upon the placid tenderness of a mother's face.†
Chpt 3
- I see well enough now that I hoped for the impossible—for the laying of what is the most obstinate ghost of man's creation, of the uneasy doubt uprising like a mist, secret and gnawing like a worm, and more chilling than the certitude of death—the doubt of the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct.†
Chpt 5
- There was no incertitude as to facts—as to the one material fact, I mean.†
Chpt 6
- Twice, he told me, he shut his eyes in the certitude that the end was upon him already, and twice he had to open them again.†
Chpt 9 *
- His extended hand aimed at my breast like a pistol; his deepset eyes seemed to pierce through me, but his twitching lips uttered no word, and the austere exaltation of a certitude seen in the dusk vanished from his face.†
Chpt 20
- Now and then, though, a word, a sentence, would escape him that showed how deeply, how solemnly, he felt about that work which had given him the certitude of rehabilitation.†
Chpt 24
- She feared nothing, but she was checked by the profound incertitude and the extreme strangeness—a brave person groping in the dark.†
Chpt 32
- Wherefore this craving for incertitude, this clinging to fear, as if incertitude and fear had been the safeguards of her love.†
Chpt 33
- Wherefore this craving for incertitude, this clinging to fear, as if incertitude and fear had been the safeguards of her love.†
Chpt 33
- I discovered suddenly in his cringing attitude a sort of assurance, as though he had been all his life dealing in certitudes.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(certitude) total certainty or (more rarely) something that is certain to happen