Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being uncertain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
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Examples
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We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.
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We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.
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"Moments of uncertainness and mistrust between ourselves have been put behind us," said President dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979.
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We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.
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And odd whiles the sounds to be as of great monsters; and the earth to shake under us; and other-whiles there to be a hush and only the steam about us, and somewhere in the distance and uncertainness a low piping of some steam cranny, very strange and lonesome-sounding.
The Night Land 2007
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Something very, very good, uncertainness and possibilities.
Number 6 Fumbles Rachel Solar-Tuttle 2002
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And odd whiles the sounds to be as of great monsters; and the earth to shake under us; and other-whiles there to be a hush and only the steam about us, and somewhere in the distance and uncertainness a low piping of some steam cranny, very strange and lonesome-sounding.
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As he stood there in anxious uncertainness he heard a low voice among the bushes.
The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901
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As he stood there in anxious uncertainness he heard a low voice among the bushes.
The Wouldbegoods 1891
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Class engine survive No. 6023 Edward II which has nearly finished its restoration at Didcot it is at 1.59 & what I think is its boiler at 2.13 in the photos video, this uncertainness it due to there being several boilers and boilerless locos in the workshop and No. 6000 George V which is currently visiting the NRM from the GWR museum in swindon who got BR 9F No. 92220
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