单词 | pledgery |
释义 | † pledgeryn. Obsolete. rare. The position, function, or responsibility of acting as a surety or pledge for another person; = suretyship n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a bondsman or guarantor > position of or state of being borrowgang1303 borrowheadc1380 borrowagec1440 borrowshipc1440 suretyship1535 cautionry1630 pledgery1706 guarantorship1885 sponsorship1895 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pledgery or Pleggery, Suretiship, an Undertaking, or Answering for. 1762 R. Kelham Britton 140 Let there be the same Punishment also where the Appellant has withdrawn himself from his Appeal before Judgement, and let his Pledges to prosecute be in our Mercy, because they have failed of their Pledgery. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Pledgery, a suretyship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1706 |
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