zekerheidelijke

Zekerheidelijke is a Dutch adjective that is rarely used in contemporary language. It appears mainly in historical or specialized legal and administrative texts. The form is built from zekerheid, meaning certainty or security, with the adjectival suffix -elijk, yielding a sense akin to “pertaining to certainty” or “providing security.” Because it is not common in standard dictionaries, its precise interpretation can vary by context.

In usage, zekerheidelijke describes features, measures, or clauses that aim to guarantee or ensure reliability or certainty within a process, contract, or security arrangement. It is more about the quality of being securing or guaranteeing rather than naming a specific type of guarantee.

Relation to other terms: The root zekerheid is central in Dutch to safety and assurance vocabulary, and modern Dutch more often uses compounds such as zekerheids- for adjectives or nouns (zekerheidsregeling, zekerheidswaarborg). Zekerheidelijke stands as a historical or technical collocation and is typically replaced by more common expressions in present-day usage.

Status: The term is not common in contemporary Dutch dictionaries and is chiefly of interest to linguists, philologists, or historians examining older legal language and compounding patterns. English translators would render it as “guarantee-related” or “providing certainty” depending on context, rather than as a fixed term.