different between surety vs faith

English

Etymology

From Middle English surete, attested since the early 1300s in the sense "guarantee, promise, pledge, assurance", from Anglo-Norman seurté/Old French seurté with the same meaning (whence modern French sûreté), from Latin s?c?rit?s. Equivalent to sure +? -ty. The senses "security, safety, stability" and "certainy" are attested since the late 1300s. "One who undertakes to pay if another does not" is from the early 1400s. Doublet of security.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????ti/, /??????ti/

Noun

surety (countable and uncountable, plural sureties)

1. Certainty.

   • 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.

2. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
3. (law) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
4. (law) One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
5. A substitute; a hostage.
6. Evidence; confirmation; warrant.

Translations

See also

• guarantor
• surcharge
• surcharged
• indorsement

Anagrams

• Steury, tuyers

English

Alternative forms

• feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faith, fayth, feith, feyth (also fay, fey, fei ("faith"); > English fay (“faith”)), borrowed from Old French fay, fey, fei, feit, feid (“faith”), from Latin fid?s (faith, belief, trust; whence also English fidelity), from f?d? (“trust, confide in”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- ("to command, persuade, trust"; whence also English bide).Displaced native Old English geleafa (“faith, religion”), which was a cognate of Dutch geloof (“permission”), which is survived in English leave (“permission”).

Old French had [?] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [?]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g. truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterisation of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix, thus making the word equivalent to fay +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

faith (countable and uncountable, plural faiths)

1. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
2. The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

3. A religious or spiritual belief system.

   • For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.
     That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.
4. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

5. (obsolete) Credibility or truth.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     the faith of the foregoing […] narrative

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:faith.

Synonyms

• (knowing, without direct observation, based on indirect evidence and experience, that something is true, real, or will happen): belief, confidence, trust, conviction
• (system of religious belief): religion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• faith at OneLook Dictionary Search
• faith in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• faith in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• faith in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• hatif