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For certain   /fɔr sˈərtən/   Listen
adjective
Certain  adj.  
1.
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. "To make her certain of the sad event." "I myself am certain of you."
2.
Determined; resolved; used with an infinitive. "However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom."
3.
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. "The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."
4.
Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. "Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise." "Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all."
5.
Unfailing; infallible. "I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper."
6.
Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. "The people go out and gather a certain rate every day."
7.
Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. "It came to pass when he was in a certain city." "About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum."
For certain, assuredly.
Of a certain, certainly.
Synonyms: Bound; sure; true; undeniable; unquestionable; undoubted; plain; indubitable; indisputable; incontrovertible; unhesitating; undoubting; fixed; stated.





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"For certain" Quotes from Famous Books



... no. 38: "Rossura: the altar by the porch of the church, 1878," I said that it had been removed. On reconsideration, I am not sure that it has been removed; but I have not been to Rossura for thirty years or more and cannot now say for certain. I believe, however, that it is still there, and that when I said it had been removed I was thinking of the alteration of an opening which there was formerly in the west wall of the porch, under the portrait of S. Carlo Borromeo, which hangs between the ...
— The Samuel Butler Collection - at Saint John's College Cambridge • Henry Festing Jones
... believe your son had every honourable intention when he gave his promise. And very likely he would have kept it, too; I cannot say for certain, because I have learnt to doubt. I am a doctor—I have seen too much—and he did not appear to great advantage yesterday. You really must forgive my saying so—but after the liveliness of his young ...
— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson
... looks a very simple process! It would be so except for certain difficulties, the very first of which is that of finding how rapidly sediments are deposited; but the main difficulty—a difficulty which renders any certain calculations of such a matter out of the question—is this, the sea-bottom on which ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley
... and legs. This cutting and painting is sometimes done before and sometimes after the burial of the body. I also observe that many of the women of these tribes are adopting so much of the customs of the whites as prescribes the wearing of black for certain periods. During the period of mourning these Indians never wash their face, or comb their hair, or laugh. These customs are observed with varying degree of strictness, but not in many instances with that exactness which characterized ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow
... voice is as boyish as ever, there is a new note in it of which his father is aware. Dick may not have grown much wiser, but whatever he does know now he seems to know for certain. ...
— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie


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