surety
IPA: ʃˈʊrʌti
noun
- Certainty.
- That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
- (law) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
- (law) One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
- A substitute; a hostage.
- Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
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Examples of "surety" in Sentences
- How much is the surety to be exact
- Robert Mylne paid the financial surety.
- This is also known as surety on the bond.
- She was bailed out after paying the surety.
- Paying the surety is illegal in some country.
- She signed the insurance over to him as surety.
- In 1895, he paid surety for the bail of Oscar Wilde.
- The act of becoming a surety is also called a guarantee.
- One of the people who provided the surety was a prime witness in the case.
- All I can say with 100% surety is that this dish is perfect with idlis and dosas.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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