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Noun: moral certainty
  1. A firm conviction based on moral grounds rather than empirical evidence
    "She had moral certainty about the rightness of her actions"

Derived forms: moral certainties

Type of: cert [Brit, informal], certainty, dead cert [Brit, informal], foregone conclusion, sure thing

Encyclopedia: Moral certainty