suretyship (short i ship)

[Formerly also suretiship, suertiship; The truth was that the man was bound in a perillous suertishipp , and could not be merrie. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 304. He that hateth suretiship is sure. Prov. xi. 15. By suretyship and borrowing they will willingly undo all their a ociates and allies. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 181.