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redeem verb trans. LME.
[French redimer or Latin redimere, formed as RE- + emere buy.]
Buy back (a former possession); make payment for (a thing held or claimed by another). LME.
b. Regain, recover (an immaterial thing). E16.
c. Regain or recover (land etc.) by force. M17.
a. Free or recover (property, a thing put in pledge, etc.) by payment of an amount due or by fulfilment of an obligation; spec. (Stock Exchange) repay (a fixed-interest stock) at the maturity date. Also, make a payment to discharge (a charge or obligation); pay off. LME.
M. Puzo Redeem your debt by some small service. J. Heller Rembrandt..redeemed articles of jewelry she had pawned.
b. Fulfil, carry out (a pledge, promise, etc.). M19.
c. Of an agent or customer: exchange (trading stamps, coupons, etc.) for money or goods. E20.
Free (a person) from captivity or punishment, esp. by paying a ransom. LME.
a. Save, rescue; spec. (of God or Christ) deliver (a person) from sin and damnation. Also foll. by from. LME.
Dryden He thrusts aside The crowd of centaurs and redeems the bride.
b. Reclaim (land). (Foll. by from.) E18.
Of a person: make amends for, atone for (an error, loss, etc.). Formerly also, avenge, repay (a wrong). LME.
Gibbon His father's sins had been redeemed at too high a price.
Bring into some (esp. former) condition or state; restore, set right again. L15.
Sir W. Scott With his barb'd horse..Stout Cromwell has redeem'd the day.
Free from a charge or claim. L15.
Buy, purchase. E16-M17.
b. Go in exchange for. L16-E17.
Shakespeare 1 Henry VI Would some part of my young years Might but redeem the passage of your age!
Save (time). E16.
Of a quality, action, etc.: make up for, compensate for, counterbalance (a defect or fault). M16.
J. Buchan The triviality of the stakes was redeemed by the brilliance..of the player. A. N. Wilson Her only redeeming feature..was her hair, which was..abundant.
b. Save (a person or thing) from some defect or fault. E17.
redeemer noun a person who redeems someone or something; spec. (Redeemer) God or Christ regarded as delivering humankind from sin and damnation: LME.
redeemless adjective (rare) unable to be redeemed, irrecoverable M17.