unassured

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The passing mention of “civil war” is I believe an unnamed reference to the 1786 Shays’ rebellion which reminds us even from Justice Story’s 1837 vantage that our nation’s continued existence has often been unassured.

From Forbes • May 12, 2015

If you are wholly unassured of your being a believer, is it not a contradiction in terms to say, that you are sure the believers' promises belong to you?

From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.

It recalled to her the ways of his pathetic youth, his youth that obscurity made wild and shy and unassured.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

But Bismarck was not satisfied, and in his eyes Germany’s safety was still unassured; so he appealed to the Reichstag to augment largely their armaments.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

You enter the realm of death and the slain earth's dust alone sleeps beneath your unassured feet.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.