noun
definition
Sureness, certainty.
example
I have absolute certitude about that.
definition
Something that is a certainty.
example
Taxes are obviously certitudes.
Examples of certitude in a Sentence
Some people need all the facts and figures before they act; they require certitude about everything from trends to markets before they launch a product.
The comedy of forgiveness has no such luxurious certitude.
For they run to suffer punishments, no matter how horrible, as if to a banquet; so that if you take that as a test either of the truth of doctrine or of their certitude of grace, you would easily conclude that in no other sect is to be found a faith so true or grace so certain.
And yet the evidence points, with increasing certitude, to bankruptcy.
Gazing with the eye of God, he will perceive within every atom a door that leadeth him to the stations of absolute certitude.
Apart from the sexual undertones, I enjoyed the moral certitude.
According to Fries, the understanding is purely the faculty of proof; it is in itself void; immediate certitude is the only source of knowledge.
Does Wittgenstein bring certitude that philosophy leaves the word as it is?
In his quest for moral certitude, Garcia's search for a mentor can only complicate his existence.
No outburst surely, in enemy country, but for us, the final certitude to be free and alive.
Among his numerous works may be mentioned Introduction a la philosophie d'Hegel (1855; 2nd ed., 1865); Probleme de la certitude (1845); Le Hegelianisme et la philosophie 0860; Mélanges philosophiques (1862); Essais de philosophie Hegelienne (1864); Strauss, l'ancienne et la nouvelle foi (1873), an attack upon Strauss's last "confession," written from the standpoint of an orthodox Hegelian; and a comprehensive work in Italian, Il Problema dell' Assoluto (Naples, 1872-82).
In a somewhat similar fashion, Lamennais (in the first stage of his speculations, represented by the Essai sur l'indiference en matiere religieuse, 1817-18 21) endeavoured to destroy all rational certitude in order to establish the principle of authority; and the same profound distrust of the power of the natural reason to-arrive at truth is exemplified (though the allegation has been denied by the author) in Cardinal Newman.
To what the remaining difference was due it is difficult to say with certitude; there are some who argue that the tendency of prices to fall is inherent, and that the constant whittling away of intermediaries' profits is sufficient explanation, while bi-metallists have maintained that the phenomenon is clearly to be traced to the action of the German government in demonetizing silver in 1872.