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
But we did not then venture to quote any long passages from the original, unassured how they might look on our page to the eyes of Young Britain.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
The first act, however, afforded her so little scope for acting, that she left the stage unassured of her own success.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
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.
They were no longer dull, dead, emotionless, but aglow with returning life—puzzled, unassured, yet clearly conscious.
From The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War by Parrish, Randall
