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Pledge vs Guaranty - What's the difference?

pledge | guaranty | Synonyms |

As verbs the difference between pledge and guaranty

is that pledge is to make a solemn promise (to do something) while guaranty is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pledge and guaranty

is that pledge is a solemn promise to do something while guaranty is 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.

pledge

English

(wikipedia pledge)

Verb

(pledg)
  • To make a solemn promise (to do something).
  • To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
  • To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
  • * 1773 ,
    • HARDCASTLE [Taking the cup.] I hope you'll find it to your mind. I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable. Will you be so good as to pledge me, sir? Here, Mr. Marlow, here is to our better acquaintance. [Drinks.]
  • * 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult
    • Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,
    And pledge me in it first for courtesy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A solemn promise to do something.
  • Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned.
  • A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but not yet formally approved.
  • A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
  • A drinking toast.
  • A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

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    guaranty

    English

    Noun

    (guaranties)
  • (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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=America has sent us guaranties She will demand that Maximilian Be held but as a prisoner of war. }}
  • * 1945 , , “ 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.

    Related terms

    * guarantor

    References

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    Verb

  • * {{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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." }}