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Incertain

adjective
1.
Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance.  Synonyms: uncertain, unsure.  "Unsure of himself and his future" , "Moving with uncertain (or unsure) steps" , "An uncertain smile" , "Touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers"






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"Incertain" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself to the partisans of the proposed Court. M. Renault, the accomplished Reporter of the committee which deals in the first instance with the subject, after stating that "sur beaucoup de points le droit de la guerre maritime est encore incertain, et chaque Etat le formule au gre de ses idees et de ses interets," lays down that, in accordance with strict juridical reasoning, when international law is silent an international Court should apply the law of the captor. He is, nevertheless, ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland

... incertain pomp; is crown'd before] Arrives sooner at high wish; that is, at the ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... un an, tu me revois, Arbate, Non plus comme autrefois cet heureux Mithridate, Qui, de Rome toujours balancant le destin, Tenait entre elle et moi l'univers incertain. Je suis vaincu; Pompee a saisi l'avantage D'une nuit qui laissait peu de place au courage; Mes soldats ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.--1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle



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