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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The condition of being sure, especially of oneself; self-assurance.
  2. n. Something beyond doubt; a certainty.
  3. n. A pledge or formal promise made to secure against loss, damage, or default; a security.
  4. n. One who has contracted to be responsible for another, especially one who assumes responsibilities or debts in the event of default.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Certainty; indubitableness: especially in the phrase of a surety, certainly, indubitably.
  2. n. Security; safety.
  3. n. That which makes sure, firm, or certain; foundation of stability; ground of security.
  4. n. Security against loss or damage; security for payment or for the performance of some act.
  5. n. One who has made himself responsible for another; specifically, in law, one who has bound himself with or for another who remains primarily liable; one who has contracted with the creditor or claimant that he will be answerable for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another; one who enters into a bond or recognizance or other obligation to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt or his performance of some act, and who, in case of the principal's failure, can be compelled to pay the debt or damages; a bondsman; a bail. The essential elements of the relation are that the surety is liable to the demandant, either directly or in the contingency of non-performance by the principal, and that the principal is liable to indemnify the surety against loss or damage by reason of the engagement of the surety. See note under guarantor.
  6. n. Hence A sponsor.
  7. To act as surety for; guarantee; be bail or security for.

Wiktionary

  1. n. certainty
  2. n. law A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
  3. n. law One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being sure; certainty; security.
  2. n. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
  3. n. Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
  4. n. (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.
  5. n. Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
  6. n. obsolete Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
  7. v. obsolete To act as surety for.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a guarantee that an obligation will be met
  2. n. property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation
  3. n. something clearly established
  4. n. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
  5. n. one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman seurté, from Latin securitas, securitatem. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English surte, from Old French, from Latin sēcūritās, from sēcūrus, sure; see secure. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Unfortunately the online DoD database does not provide viewers with dates of service, but while absolute surety is not provided here, it is certainly possible that one or both entries listed in that database and the man named in your inquiry actually relate to the same individual.”

    Heroes or Villains?

  • “This surety is called the confirmation bias, whereby we seek and find confirmatory evidence in support of already existing beliefs and ignore or reinterpret disconfirmatory evidence.”

    Confirmation Bias and ID

  • “All I can say with 100% surety is that this dish is perfect with idlis and dosas.”

    Coconut ‘sammanthi’ « Salt and Pepper.

  • “The UK has become increasingly reliant on imported food and its faith in the long-term surety of the global market is misplaced, according to research released by the Soil Association.”

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  • “One can imagine that it was the great Earl or Sir Philip Sidney that gave his imagination its moral and practical turn [Edmund Spencer's now], and one imagines him seeking from philosophical men, who distrust instinct because it disturbs contemplation, and from practical men who distrust everything they cannot use in the routine of immediate events, that impulse and method of creation that can only be learned with surety from the technical criticism of poets, and from the excitement of some movement in the artistic life. from → Quotations”

    As Yeats Put it: « Unknowing

  • “Nor could even he himself be called a surety absolutely innocent: for although he was properly and personally innocent, he was imputatively and substitutively guilty; for”

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice

  • “Better of a surety is a lowly peasant who serveth God, than a proud philosopher who watcheth the stars and neglecteth the knowledge of himself.”

    II. Book I: Admonitions Profitable for the Spiritual Life. Of thinking humbly of Oneself

  • “The third cause is for the augmentation of our surety, that is to say for the glory that is purposed in us; in their solemnity our hope and surety be augmented and increased.”

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6

  • “Becket submitted so far to the sentence of confiscation of goods and chattels, that he gave surety, which is a proof that he meant not at that time to question the authority of the king's courts.”

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John

  • “One of the people who provided the surety was a prime witness in the case.”

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. certainty
  1. security
  1. bondsman
  1. bail
  1. hostage
  1. evidence
  1. confirmation
  1. warrant

hypernyms (12)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. warrant
  2. guarantee
  1. warrantee
  2. warranty
  1. foregone conclusion
  2. certainty
  1. sure thing
  2. captive
  1. prisoner
  2. patron
  1. supporter
  2. sponsor

same context (11)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. sureness
  2. fearlessness
  1. self-assurance
  2. certitude
  1. self-possession
  2. guarantee
  1. clarity
  2. steadfastness
  1. certainty
  2. steadiness
  1. self-confidence

rhymes (5)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. impurity
  1. maturity
  1. obscurity
  1. purity
  1. security

reverse dictionary (67)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. warrant
  2. suerte
  3. frankpledge
  4. bondsman
  5. pledge
  6. sponsor
  7. mainpernable
  8. mainpernor
  9. fidejussion
  10. fidejussor
  11. to strike hands
  12. engager
  13. to look to
  1. cosurety
  2. guarantor
  3. cautioner
  4. godfather
  5. justify
  6. borough
  7. borrow
  8. mainpriser
  9. manucaptor
  10. nonsurety
  11. safe-pledge
  12. sam
  13. seurte
  1. supplicavit
  2. surement
  3. surety
  4. suretyship
  5. bail
  6. bail bond
  7. bailpiece
  8. bailsman
  9. counter-security
  10. counter-surety
  11. hand-borrow
  12. counter surety
  13. discuss
  1. adpromissor
  2. security
  3. performance bond
  4. surety bond
  5. bond
  6. principal
  7. guarantee
  8. vouch
  9. bondswoman
  10. cosigner
  11. sponsion
  12. undertake
  13. unsurety
  1. arrestment
  2. assurance
  3. band
  4. caution
  5. engage
  6. guaranty
  7. justification
  8. liable
  9. mainprise
  10. man
  11. secure
  12. judicio sisti
  13. undertaker
  1. vadium
  2. voucher

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