Meanings
- comparativerarecomparative form of uncertain: more uncertain
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.
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 42 more examples
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.
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“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.
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
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