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Word Meanings - PLEDGEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

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  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • DELIVERABLE
    Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
  • PLEDGERY
    A pledging; suretyship.
  • PLEDGE
    The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
  • PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
    One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
  • PROPERTY
    All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
  • DELIVERLY
    Actively; quickly; nimbly. Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.
  • PLEDGELESS
    Having no pledge.
  • PLEDGER
    One who pledges.
  • PLEDGEE
    The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
  • DELIVERNESS
    Nimbleness; agility.
  • GIVEN
    p. p. & a. from Give, v.
  • DELIVERER
    1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver. 2. One who relates or communicates.
  • DELIVER
    1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
  • PLEDGET
    A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
  • DELIVERESS
    A female de Evelyn.
  • DELIVERY
    1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of
  • REDELIVER
    1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
  • INTERPLEDGE
    To pledge mutually.
  • REDELIVERY
    1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
  • SAFE-PLEDGE
    A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
  • IMPLEDGE
    To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
  • IMPROPERTY
    Impropriety.
  • FORGIVENESS
    1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
  • REDELIVERANCE
    A second deliverance.

 

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