Definitions for sureties

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sureties sur·e·ty

Spelling: [shoo r-i-tee, shoo r-tee, Sureties is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in sureties (eeirsstu).

Definitions for sureties

noun

1. security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond.
2. a person who has made himself or herself responsible for another, as a sponsor, godparent, or bondsman.
3. the state or quality of being sure.
4. certainty.
5. something that makes sure; ground of confidence or safety.
6. a person who is legally responsible for the debt, default, or delinquency of another.
7. assurance, especially self-assurance.

Origin of sureties

1300-50; Middle English surte Middle French; Old French seurte Latin sēcūritāt-, stem of sēcūritās security

Examples for sureties

You may have a double in the wings, of course, but even that provides no surety.

"I refuse to accept your surety, for your own sake," said the Marchese.

And, of a surety, I am richer by far than the goddess who has but one daughter and one son.

I never had much faith (if I dare make so free) in the surety of our retreat here.

When I ask him to be my surety for a couple of hundred thousand crowns?

The second surety might prove to be any sort of worthless fellow.

Let them but admit it to me and of a surety I will fling them into imprisonment!

surety, father, you do not think him in danger of relapsing into the worship of his ancestors?

A friend of his wife's was his surety; such things often happen.

He gave me the right to sequestrate his pay by way of surety.