单词 | certitude |
释义 | certituden. 1. a. Subjective certainty; the state of being certain or sure of anything; assured conviction of the mind that the facts are so and so; absence of doubt or hesitation; assurance, confidence. (There has been a growing tendency since the time of Hobbes to restrict the word to this sense; which, though not etymologically founded, is practically useful.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] sickerlaika1225 sickerness?c1225 sickerheadc1250 boldness1330 certaintya1340 traistc1340 assurancec1374 certain138. sureness1419 surancea1450 affiancec1460 certitude?a1475 resting?a1475 security1535 firmancec1540 confidence1555 assuredness1561 resolution1590 plerophory1598 reliance1606 undoubtfulness1619 positiveness1711 positivity1741 decidedness1800 positivism1842 undoubtingness1857 inexpugnability1864 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] > moral certainty moral certainty1637 certitude1699 moral1861 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 183 Whiche childer..not knowenge their faders in certitude. 1554 J. Knox Godly Let. sig. A iij You wolde knowe the tyme, and what certitude I haue here off. 1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 199 An infallible certitude of the understanding in that which it knows to be, or that it shall be. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 359 Moral Certitude Absolute, is that in which the Mind of Man entirely acquiesces, requiring no further Assurance. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Certitude, is properly a Quality of the Judgment of the Mind, importing an Adhesion of the Mind to the Proposition we affirm; or the Strength wherewith we adhere to it. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 80 My argument is..that certitude was a habit of mind, that certainty was a quality of propositions. 1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 3 The Evangelist distinguishes between what we now term certitude—or the belief of the mind—and certainty, or the solid reality of the fact or truths believed in. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. v. 228 The truths of faith must be held with absolute certitude. b. A feeling of certainty in a particular case; the opposite of a doubt. With a and plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] > instance of yeaa1400 certainty1605 certitude1611 promisea1625 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 534/1 To sound the truth of the Electors and Peoples affections, which..they found entire, and with that certitude returne. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 231 Delude themselves with imaginary certitudes of Salvation. 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ii. 4 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Heaven..wher Desires turn to Fruition, Doubts to Certitudes. 2. a. Objective certainty. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [noun] mid iwissea1000 certaina1300 certaintya1340 sickerness1390 sickerty1405 sureness1419 redinessc1425 suretyc1425 surenessa1475 assurancec1485 certitude1538 constancy1563 assuredness1570 certainness1571 confirmedness1667 1538 J. Bale Tragedye Promyses God in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) I. 9 They come that thereof wyll shewe the certytude. c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 50 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 78 For a-mongst an hundreth—this is of certitude. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 59 Science..hath certitude and stability, as being conversant in things certain and stable. 1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 110 It will be very long before political subjects will be reduced to geometric certitude. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith Introd. 3 We have evidence of the utmost conceivable certitude. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] stablenessa1300 tack1412 steadfastnessc1450 surenessc1450 stability1470 radicationa1500 constance1509 steadiness1530 certitudea1533 firmance1533 staidness1556 establishment1561 settledness1571 settling1582 state1597 groundedness1601 inviscerationa1631 setness1642 unmalleableness1644 fixedness1647 poise1649 inveteracy1716 well-foundedness1735 fixity1791 unmalleability1828 deep-rootedness1860 instatement1877 steady state1885 hard and fastness1897 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Mm.vjv Thou sawest neuer certitude in the loue of a woman. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 37 That there is an Orthotes or certitude of names among all Nations. c. Sureness of action, execution, or event; unfailing quality. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > certain prospect or possession > [noun] sickernessc1100 sickerty1405 sureness1419 surety1453 certitude1597 securancec1642 1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 139 The excellency of it [the eye] is knowne in the certitude of the actions. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 375 That certitude which it hath in effecting any thing. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura v. 118 A method, how by a constant, and regular certitude, one may express to the eye, [etc.]. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile iv. 91 Expressed with masterly certitude. 1886 Swinburne in Athenæum 10 July 49/1 Trust in the certitude of compensatory justice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1475 |
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