pignus
Americannoun
plural
pignora-
property held as security for a debt.
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the contract containing such a pledge.
Etymology
Origin of pignus
< Latin: literally, pledge
Example Sentences
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Ex illo die, atro lapide notando, cur� vociferantes famili� singulis annis crescentis eo usque insultabant ut nunquam tam carum pignus e vinculis istis aheneis solvere possem.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
"Servat et Alba, Lares, et quorum lucet in aris Ignis adhuc Phrygius, nullique adspecta virorum Pallas, in abstruso pignus memorabile templo."
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Cujus quoque pignus esse volumus Apostolicam Benedictionem, quam intimo cordis affectu Tibi ipsi, Venerabilis Frater, et gregi Tuae curae commisso paremanter impertimus.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by
The Roman word "pignus," which Plutarch translates by ἐνέχυρα, means a thing pawned and delivered as a security to the pawnee.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
Aptius uero per utriusque pignus et sanguinem amborum negotio consuli.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
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