Surety vs Pawn - What's the difference?
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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
(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)
Surety is a related term of pawn.
As nouns the difference between surety and pawn
is that surety is certainty 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 a verb 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.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.
See also
* surcharge * surcharged * indorsementpawn
English
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.