n
Obsolete form of affiance. [Faith, trust.]
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To trust (in someone or something); to rely (on).
n
Obsolete form of amenance. [(obsolete) Conduct, demeanor.]
n
Obsolete form of assistance. [Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.]
v
(obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
n
A person who or thing which assures.
v
(transitive, rare, obsolete) To trust.
n
(obsolete) The act of avowing; avowal.
v
(transitive, archaic) To trust; place confidence in (a person).
n
Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
n
The position of condoning or endorsing something.
n
A person on whom something is conferred or bestowed.
n
(law) The money paid or awarded to a claimant (in England), a pursuer (in Scotland) or a plaintiff (in the US) in a civil action as compensation for a loss suffered by the same.
n
Obsolete spelling of deed [An action or act; something that is done.]
adj
(Euro-English or non-native speakers' English) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.
n
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
v
(transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
v
(transitive) To trust to the care of.
n
(law) A legal doctrine under which the failure of one party to meet a deadline may be excused because they were prevented from so doing by circumstances outside their control.
adj
(canon law, postpositive) Of a penalty, only coming into force after it is imposed by an authority, and not by the fact of the law being broken.
n
One to whom something is given; the receiver.
n
The act by which something is granted.
n
(rare) One who indemnificates; indemnifier
n
A person protected by, or benefiting from, an indemnity.
v
Alternative form of entrust [(transitive) To trust to the care of.]
v
(transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
n
(countable, obsolete) bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised
n
Alternative form of recognizee [(law) The person in whose favour a recognizance is made.]
n
A token; a symbol; a pledge.
v
(obsolete) To guarantee safe passage by granting such a document.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.
n
(law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
n
(obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
v
To accept blame, punishment, or accountability for something within one's role or chain of command, especially when a leader protects the subordinates who caused the problem.
n
Abbreviation of trust. [Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.]
n
(countable, obsolete) A pledge or truce.
v
(transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
v
To organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.
n
A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
n
The act of something being underwritten financially.
n
That which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension.
v
(transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
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