Definitions for surety

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surety sur·e·ty

Spelling: [shoo r-i-tee, shoo r-tee, Surety is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in surety (erstuy).

Definitions for surety

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 surety

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

Examples for surety

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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