uncertainer
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uncertainer
- (rare) comparative form of uncertain: more uncertain
- 1670, Thomas Brooks, London’s Lamentations: or, A Serious Discourse Concerning That Late Fiery Dispensation That Turned Our (Once Renowned) City into a Ruinous Heap. […], London: […] John Hancock and Nathaniel Ponder, […], pages 198–199:
- In the firſt Adam our Tenure was lower, and meaner, and baſer, and uncertainer, than now it is: for our Title, our Tenure by Chriſt is more honourable, and ſtronger, and ſweeter, and laſtinger, than ever it was before.
- 1922 August 3, Lewis B[ennett] Miller, “Pike’s Peak or Bust”, in The Washington Farmer, volume 47, number 5, Spokane, Wash., page 14 (82), column 1:
- “But diggin’ for water is powerful oncertain business,” another of the wagon drivers suggested. / “No uncertainer than trampin’ a hundred and thirty miles without water,” somebody else spoke up.
- 1941 July 19, W[illiam] T[homas] Bost, “Among Us Tar Heels”, in Greensboro Daily News, volume LX, number 2, Greensboro, N.C., page two, column 4:
- Then, one day, if memory isn’t uncertainer than hero worshipers, the Pig Bristle Slugger dropped a fly in the outfield, or maybe he struck out in the pinch.