Guaranty vs Pawn - What's the difference?
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(legal) An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a warranty; a security.
Something serving as a security for such an undertaking.
* {{quote-book, year=1864, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No doubt the city of New York and the State of California contain capital enough for the completion of the entire road,--would subscribe to it, too, upon sufficient guaranties . }}
An assurance or guarantee.
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Olive Tilford Dargan, title=Semiramis and Other Plays, chapter=, edition=
, passage=America has sent us guaranties She will demand that Maximilian Be held but as a prisoner of war. }}
* 1945 , , “
* {{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition=
, passage=His imperial majesty likewise guaranties' to the king of Prussia the perpetual possession of upper Silesia; and the king ' guaranties to the emperour the perpetual possession of upper Austria, as soon as he shall have occupied it by conquest." }}
(label) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
(label) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn -games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
(video games) To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.
The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
* Shakespeare
An instance of pawning something.
* Shakespeare
* John Donne
An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
*, New York, 2001, p.106:
* Francis Bacon
(rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.
To pledge; to stake or wager.
To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
Guaranty is a related term of pawn.
As nouns the difference between guaranty and pawn
is that guaranty is (legal) an undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a warranty; a security while pawn is (label) the most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game in chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant or pawn can be the state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge or pawn can be .As verbs the difference between guaranty and pawn
is that guaranty is while pawn is (video games) to render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games or pawn can be to pledge; to stake or wager.guaranty
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Noun
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The Philosophical Basis of Masaryk’s Political Ideals]” in [[w:Ethics (journal), Ethics]LV, ? 4 (July 1945), page 299, right column:
- The concept of God and immortality is for him a guaranty of this eternal difference between right and wrong.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) paun, .Noun
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(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).Noun
(en noun)- All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
- My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
- Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
- As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness, so, O Lord, let this day's comfort be the earnest of to-morrow's.
- Brokers, takers of pawns , biting userers, I will not admit; yet I will tolerate some kind of usery.
- As for mortgaging or pawning,men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
Verb
(en verb)- But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
