Middle English Dictionary Entry
waranting ger.
Entry Info
Forms | waranting ger. |
Etymology | From waranten v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Defense, protection; maken ~, to guarantee security (for someone’s life);
(b) yeven no ~, ?to permit no defense, i.e., be impossible to avoid;
(c) callen to ~, law to have (sb.) summoned to court to provide guarantee of title to property.
Associated quotations
a
- c1500(?c1450) Wedding Gawain (Rwl C.86)268 : For thy lyfe I make warrauntyng Or elles thou shalt lose thy hed.
b
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)12404 : Why shulde he [God] þat þyng forbede Þat nedely moste be do yn dede? hyt were foly, comaunde a þyng Þat myȝt nat ȝyue no warantyng.
c
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)249/15 : Richard, Robert, and Thedulf called the forsaid Iohn to the warantyng in the forsaid shire of Oxenford and the which forsaid iiij yerdes of lond…Iohn…warantized to…Richard, Robert, and Thedulf.