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Word Meanings - SURETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that

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One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15. 5. Hence, a substitute; a hostage. Cowper. 6. Evidence; confirmation; warrant. She called the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself. Shak. (more info) 1. The state of being sure; certainty; security. Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. Gen. xv. 13. For the more surety they looked round about. Sir P. Sidney. 2. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none. Milton. 3. Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act. There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us. Shak.

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  • REDEEM
    Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
  • 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;
  • HOSTAGE
    A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
  • WARRANTOR
    One who warrants.
  • SECURITY
    1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
  • EARNESTLY
    In an earnest manner.
  • 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.
  • REDEEMER
    1. One who redeems. 2. Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
  • PLEDGELESS
    Having no pledge.
  • WARRANTISE
    Authority; security; warranty. Shak.
  • SPONSORIAL
    Pertaining to a sponsor.
  • WARRANTER
    One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse. (more info) 1. One who warrants, gives
  • PLEDGER
    One who pledges.
  • PLEDGEE
    The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
  • WARRANT
    protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. weren to grant, warrant, G. gewähren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. 1. That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act,
  • REDEEMABLENESS
    The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
  • SURETYSHIP
    The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier.
  • GUARANTEE
    The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor. Syn. -- Guarantee, Warranty. A guarantee is an engagement that a certain act will be done or not done in future. A warranty is an engagement as to the qualities or title of
  • EARNEST
    Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.
  • UNWARRANTABLE
    Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
  • INTERPLEDGE
    To pledge mutually.
  • UNREDEEMED
    Not redeemed.
  • SAFE-PLEDGE
    A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
  • UNSURETY
    Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. Sir T. More.
  • OVEREARNEST
    Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
  • RESPONSORIAL
    Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman.
  • IMPLEDGE
    To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
  • COSURETY
    One who is surety with another.
  • UNWARRANTED
    Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
  • NONSURETY
    Insecurity.

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