Meanings
plural sartainties
- countabledialectalnonstandarduncountablecertainty
“My boy,” said the landlord, “you’ll have the nightmare to a dead sartainty.”
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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sartainty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sartainty
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