释义 |
for a certaintyBeyond the possibility of doubt: he knew they would come again for a certainty...- It was possibly two years off; but no one could know this, not for a certainty, and not even for a probability.
- On numerous occasions the diarist vented his frustration with passages like, ‘Without [Churchill] England was lost for a certainty, with him England has been on the verge of disaster time and time again.’
- If you are absolutely convinced of Sarah's truthfulness - and you have no reason not to be - you do not know, for a certainty, that John committed the assault.
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