'Surety' definitions:
Definition of 'surety'
From: WordNet
noun
Something clearly established
noun
Property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation; "bankers are reluctant to lend without good security" [syn: security, surety]
noun
A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms [syn: hostage, surety]
noun
noun
A guarantee that an obligation will be met [syn: security, surety]
Definition of 'Surety'
From: GCIDE
- Surety \Sure"ty\, v. t. To act as surety for. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surety'
From: GCIDE
- Surety \Sure"ty\, n.; pl. Sureties. [OE. seurte, OF. se["u]rt['e], F. s[^u]ret['e]. See Sure, Security.]
- 1. The state of being sure; certainty; security. [1913 Webster]
- Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. --Gen. xv. 13. [1913 Webster]
- For the more surety they looked round about. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. [1913 Webster]
- [We] our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act. [1913 Webster]
- There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster]
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. --Prov. xi. 15. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Hence, a substitute; a hostage. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Evidence; confirmation; warrant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- She called the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surety'
From: Easton
- Surety one who becomes responsible for another. Christ is the surety of the better covenant (Heb. 7:22). In him we have the assurance that all its provisions will be fully and faithfully carried out. Solomon warns against incautiously becoming security for another (Prov. 6:1-5; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16).
Synonyms of 'surety'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- acquiescence,
- angel,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- backer,
- bail,
- bailsman,
- belief,
- bond,
- bondsman,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- clear sailing,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- credence,
- credit,
- credulity,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- dependence,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- faith,
- gage,
- godfather,
- godparent,
- guarantee,
- guarantor,
- guaranty,
- handsel,
- harmlessness,
- hock,
- hope,
- hostage,
- hubris,
- immunity,
- indemnity,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- insurance,
- insurer,
- invulnerability,
- mainpernor,
- mainprise,
- mortgagor,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- patron,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- pride,
- probatum,
- protection,
- proved fact,
- reception,
- recognizance,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- risklessness,
- safeguard,
- safeness,
- safety,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- settled belief,
- sponsor,
- stock,
- stocks and bonds,
- store,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- suspension of disbelief,
- tie,
- token payment,
- trust,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- undertaking,
- underwriter,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- warrant,
- warrantor,
- warranty