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guaranty

[gar-uh n-tee]
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noun, plural guar·an·ties.
  1. a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
  2. something that is taken or presented as security.
  3. the act of giving security.
  4. a person who acts as a guarantor.
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verb (used with object), guar·an·tied, guar·an·ty·ing.
  1. guarantee.
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Origin of guaranty

From the Anglo-French word guarantie, dating back to 1585–95. See warrant, -y3
Related formsnon·guar·an·ty, noun, plural non·guar·an·ties.re·guar·an·ty, noun, plural re·guar·an·ties.
Can be confusedguarantee guaranty warrantee warranty
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Examples from the Web for guarantied

Historical Examples

  • He told what he saw, or what was guarantied to him by competent witnesses.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862

    Various

  • It is the thing, and not merely the name, that is guarantied.

  • The treaty of Great Waradin (24th February 1538) guarantied the throne to the latter, but without reversion to his descendants.

  • A cunningly devised mockery of freedom is guarantied to them, and that is all.

  • If the truth were told, she now envied the meanest of those maidens that security which her lack of beauty had guarantied.

    Charlemont

    W. Gilmore Simms

British Dictionary definitions for guarantied

guaranty

noun plural -ties
  1. a pledge of responsibility for fulfilling another person's obligations in case of that person's default
  2. a thing given or taken as security for a guaranty
  3. the act of providing security
  4. a person who acts as a guarantor
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verb -ties, -tying or -tied
  1. a variant of guarantee
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Word Origin

C16: from Old French garantie, variant of warantie, of Germanic origin; see warranty
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Word Origin and History for guarantied

guaranty

n.

"act or fact of guaranteeing," 1520s, garrantye, from earlier garant (see guarantee) with influence from Old French garantie "protection, defense," originally past participle of garantir "to protect," from the same source. The sense of "pledge given as security" that developed 17c. in guarantee might reasonably have left the sense "act of guaranteeing" to this form of the word, but the forms remain confused.

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