Definition of Incertain

1. Adjective. Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance. "Touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers"


Definition of Incertain

1. n. Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.

Definition of Incertain

1. Adjective. uncertain ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incertain

incepting
inception
inception rate
inceptions
inceptisol
inceptive
inceptively
inceptives
inceptor
inceptors
incepts
inceration
incerations
incerative
incertae sedis
incertain (current term)
incertainty
incertitude
incertitudes
incessable
incessably
incessancies
incessancy
incessant
incessantly
incessantness
incession

Literary usage of Incertain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"... infamous crime unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury,"1 except incertain cases, applies only to prosecutions tarn as well as indictment. ..."

2. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"And there it is held, In. Ч\. that if onek makes a Lease for so many Years as JS shall'name, now this is incertain at the Beginning; but after JS shall have ..."

3. A New System of Arithmetick Theorical and Practical: Wherein the Science of by Alexander Malcolm (1730)
"As to the incertain Decimals, ... that tho' no incertain Deci-nal can ever arife from any finite ..."

4. Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common by Michael Nolan, John Strange, Great Britain Courts (1782)
"Skinner 666. though the verdict was fo incertain, that it was impracticable to determine either way, for want of finding who {truck ..."

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