All 5 Uses of
certitude
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The clear certitude of his own immunity grew dim and to it succeeded a vague fear that his soul had really fallen unawares.†
Chpt 4 *
- Idle and embittering, finally, to argue, against his own dispassionate certitude, that the commandment of love bade us not to love our neighbour as ourselves with the same amount and intensity of love but to love him as ourselves with the same kind of love.†
Chpt 4
- His soul was soaring in an air beyond the world and the body he knew was purified in a breath and delivered of incertitude and made radiant and commingled with the element of the spirit.†
Chpt 4
- What were they now but cerements shaken from the body of death—the fear he had walked in night and day, the incertitude that had ringed him round, the shame that had abased him within and without— cerements, the linens of the grave?†
Chpt 4
- Can you say with certitude by whom the soul of your race was bartered and its elect betrayed—by the questioner or by the mocker?†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(certitude) total certainty or (more rarely) something that is certain to happen