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

This being graciously accorded, the mate, with a most doleful countenance, and a very unassured voice, made answer to the plain interrogative of the Clerk of Arraigns-- "Not guilty, my Lord."

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson

An hour passed, and still she sat unassured, restless of thought and conscious only that an encroaching darkness had obscured a vista on which her eyes had loved to dwell.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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

But the four infants who were left would be burden enough for the mother in her unassured and unprotected state.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George