of a surety

of a surety

1. (archaic) For certain.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xij:[11], folio clxxij, recto:

     And whẽ Peter was come to hym ſilfe / he ſayde: nowe I knowe off a ſurety / that the lorde hath ſent his angell […]

   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter LI, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 235:

     Of a surety, little Harry, we must speedily resume our studies.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 23–24:

     In this bout I did but measure myself with him. But thereby know I of a surety that when I put forth my might he will not be able to withstand me; and all ye shall shortly behold how, as one shattereth a stalk of angelica, I will break and shatter the limbs of this Goldry Bluszco.