Meaning of sureness in English
(Definition of sureness from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of sureness
sureness
He went over the ground with all the rapidity of step and sureness of aim of the ex-rifleman.
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However, the majority of people would like a home in which to live in security, permanence, peace and sureness.
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The pace and sureness at which his intellect worked were prodigious.
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That sureness is of particular importance with the chiropractic profession.
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One must therefore ask whether in such circumstances—that is to say, dollar strength or doubts about our own sureness of purpose—intervention could be the answer.
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Are we to proliferate that kind of national sureness?
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There is nothing like the school of experience for developing sureness of touch.
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If people do not have that security, sureness, permanence and peace, how can they give what otherwise they are capable of giving their spouse and their children?
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When the breach is alleged, of course the breach must be proved to the degree of sureness to which we are well accustomed in criminal matters.
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Nonetheless, there is a danger that we shall enter the post cold war world without many sinews of world authority and without much sureness of world leadership.
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Planning is always better and of a higher quality when some sureness exists about what is likely to happen next month, next year and the year after.
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It is all done with great sureness, making a surprising bridge from the inconclusive and mysterious to a dry and faintly whimsical patience.
Verbal particles indicating sureness, polite requests, authoritativeness, dubiousness, and other nonlexical information follow clauses.
With these few words... came a sureness of mind that matched the depth of feeling in my heart.
When under the influence of this "chi" mode or mood, we are aware of our own physicality and sureness of action.
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Translations of sureness
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certitude, assurance…
kesinlik…
zekerheid…
jistota…
sikkerhed…
kepastian…
ความแน่ใจ, ความแน่นอน…
tính chắc chắn…
niezawodność…
säkerhet, visshet…
pasti…
die Sicherheit…
visshet…
впевненість…
