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

And then again the old man fell a wondering at something in them that did not suggest the unassured beginnings of courtship, a settled security of relation as of complete unity in a mutual enterprise.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

When the answer came, it was strangely deprecatory, uncertain, unassured.

From Vera, the Medium by Davis, Richard Harding

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.