"incertain" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English incertayne, borrowed from Middle French incertain, derived in the 14th c. from certain, after Latin incertus (“uncertain”). By surface analysis, in- + certain.",
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          "text": "...or to be worse then worst\nOf those, that lawlesse and incertaine thought,\nImagine howling, 'tis too horrible.",
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          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:",
          "text": "And again, that as these acquisitions are in themselves generally worthless, so are the means to attain them not only base and infamous, but at best incertain, and always full of danger.",
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        "(obsolete) Not certain, uncertain."
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