All 5 Uses of
certitude
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Upon incertitude, upon unlikelihood.†
Chpt 9incertitude = the state of being unsurestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incertitude means not and reverses the meaning of certitude. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation had or had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him.†
Chpt 17
- He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational reagent between a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void.†
Chpt 17
- That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.†
Chpt 17
- By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void of incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
total certainty or (more rarely) something that is certain to happen