sureness
IPA: ʃˈʊrnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The property of being sure, certainty.
- (uncountable) The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being sure.
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Examples of "sureness" in Sentences
- Maybe, some close to him say, the old sureness of touch has gone.
- "But, no doubt, the sureness has been a good servant in his business," returned the Judge.
- Evidently, if visions would make us sure, God does not care about the kind of sureness they can give, or for our being made sure in that way.
- A positive result in particle physics requires what's called five sigma, which is a probability of 99.99997 percent sureness, which is fantastic.
- I will not ask whether you have any religion or not, because most of you are professors of religion, but I do ask, Has your religion got this element of 'sureness' in it?
- Greatheart -- Greatheart the valiant -- her knight of the golden armour, going before her, strong to defend, -- invincible, unafraid, sure by means of that sureness which is given only to those who draw upon a Higher
- That alone is reason to go, since "Blood Knot," the 1961 two-man play that introduced Mr. Fugard to the world's stages, is a modern classic, a play that moves with stealthy sureness from a quiet, almost nonchalant start to an overwhelming conclusion.
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