Certitude vs Surety - What's the difference?
certitude | surety | Related terms |
(uncountable) Sureness, certainty.
(countable) Something that is a certainty.
certainty
* Bible, Genesis xv. 13
* Sir Philip Sidney
That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
* Milton
(legal) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
A substitute; a hostage.
Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
* Shakespeare
Certitude is a related term of surety.
As nouns the difference between certitude and surety
is that certitude is (uncountable) sureness, certainty while surety is certainty.certitude
English
(Certainty)Noun
(en noun)- I have absolute certitude about that.
- Taxes are obviously certitudes .
Synonyms
* (l) (more common)Anagrams
* ----surety
English
Noun
(wikipedia surety)- Know of a surety , that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.
- For the more surety they looked round about.
- [We] our happy state / Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; / On other surety none.
- There remains unpaid / A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which / One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
- (legal) One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
- (Cowper)
- She called the saints to surety , / That she would never put it from her finger, / Unless she gave it to yourself.