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Example sentences for "moral certainty"

  • At another, it is said to be nothing but Certainty, or moral Certainty, &c.

  • Moral certainty is not absolute, because will being a power to do or not to do, there is always a possibility, although there may be no probability, nay an infinite improbability, that the will may disobey the laws of the reason.

  • A future contingent event may therefore have a high degree of probability, and even a moral certainty.

  • Moral certainty, is the certainty which lies between the connexion of motive and will.

  • Eighthly: Our expectations respecting the determinations of Deity are attended with the highest moral certainty.

  • A physical certainty bears uniformly the name of certainty, while a moral certainty is characterised as a probability.

  • Testimony or moral certainty is inferior to physical certainty.

  • A probability may vary in weight from a moral certainty, where it ranks next to a physical certainty, down to a conjecture, and descend lower in likelihood till it is lost in conjecture.

  • Whoever has a clay sod to plow up, and is deficient in manure, may repeat this experiment with a moral certainty of liberal returns.

  • And he who either has or can buy a bed of Muck within half a mile of his barn, his sty, his hen-house, may dig and draw from it all Winter with a moral certainty that it will generously reward his outlay.

  • Westcott and Hort enclose within double brackets in token of the "moral certainty" they entertain that the words are spurious.

  • Ante-Nicene Fathers would have learned) he regards as a "moral certainty.

  • To warrant a conviction upon a charge of murder, the evidence must be of such kind and quantity as to convince the jury of the truth of the charge beyond every reasonable doubt, and to a moral certainty.

  • Moral certainty, a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his guilt.

  • Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    golden ring; moral being; moral causes; moral distinctions; moral education; moral effect; moral excellence; moral feeling; moral influence; moral judgments; moral life; moral nature; moral obligation; moral order; moral philosophy; moral point; moral progress; moral restraint; moral sense; moral sentiment; moral training; never marry; physical geography; second growth; several ways; twere best