Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of becoming surety for another.
- n. In international law, an act or engagement made on behalf of a state by an agent not specially authorized. Such conventions must be confirmed by express or tacit ratification.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of becoming surety for another.
- n. An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of becoming surety for another.
- n. (Internat. Law) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
Etymologies
- Latin sponsio, from spondere, sponsum ("to promise solemnly"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In this state the apostle interposes himself by a voluntary sponsion, to undertake for Onesimus: “I Paul have written it with my own hand,” Egō apotisō; — “I Paul will answer for the whole.””
“As the supreme governor, lawgiver, and judge of all, unto whom it belonged to take care that his holy law was observed, or the offenders punished, he admitted, upon the transgression of it, the sponsion and suretiship of Christ to answer for the sins of men, Heb. x.”
“And this voluntary sponsion was one ground of the imputation of our sin unto Christ.”
“9 — Voluntary sponsion, the ground of the imputation of sin to Christ.”
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