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uncertain | tribulation |

As an adjective uncertain

is not certain; unsure.

As a proper noun tribulation is

(christianity) a relatively short period of time before the second coming where believers will experience worldwide persecution and be purified and strengthened by it.

uncertain

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not certain; unsure.
  • *(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
  • *:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
  • Not known for certain; questionable.
  • :
  • Not yet determined; undecided.
  • Variable and subject to change.
  • Fitful or unsteady.
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  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Unpredictable or capricious.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!

    • Antonyms

    * certain

    Related terms

    * uncertainly, uncertainty

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    tribulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any adversity; a trying period or event.
  • * 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 6:
    • For the blessed apostle himself in his sore tribulation', praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God (in a manner) that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that '''tribulation''' to strengthen him was far better for him than to take that ' tribulation from him.
  • * 1847 , , Omoo , ch. 11:
    • Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.
  • * 1944 June 27, , Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican National Convention:
    • It is youth who must inherit the tribulation , the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
  • * 2009 Sept. 24, , " Kristina'': A New Musical from the ABBA Guys," ''New York Times (retrieved 12 March 2014):
    • Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations .

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