Surety vs Assurance - What's the difference?
surety | assurance |
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
The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
*(w) xvii. 31.
*:Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
* (1800-1859)
*:Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
*(w) x. 22.
*:Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:Brave men meet danger with assurance .
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance .
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.His air, of self-confident assurance , seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
(lb) Betrothal; affiance.
Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. &hand; Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
(lb) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. &hand; In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. ((William Blackstone) (1723-1780))
As nouns the difference between surety and assurance
is that surety is certainty while assurance is the act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.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.