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.