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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Incertitud(e, n. [OF. incertitude : cf. Certitude n. e.m.E. (1601).] Uncertainty, doubt, insecurity, unpredictability. — 1490 Irland Mir. fol. 280.
The gret certitud … of ded, and the incertitud and indeterminacioun anens ws of the day and houre tharof 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 101.
Thus sulde the Christiane congregation live in perpetuale debait and incertitude, geve the Scripture wer juge 1580 Edinb. Test. VIII. 295.
Knawing the incertitude of the lyf of man in this erth
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