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verb

Redeem v. t. (past & past part. redeemed; pres. part. redeeming)

1.

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase. "If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold."

2.

Hence, specifically:

(a)

(Law) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.

(b)

(Com.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.

3.

To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like. "Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles." "The Almighty from the grave Hath me redeemed."

4.

(Theol.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us."

5.

To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises. "I will redeem all this on Percy's head."

6.

To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error. "Which of ye will be mortal, to redeem Man's mortal crime?" "It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows."

To redeem the time, to make the best use of it.

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Etymology of 'Redeeming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Redeeming" Quotes from Famous Books

... all, that old life was better than this new one. The troubles of her mother, her own young struggles for food and warmth, the woes of Mrs. Banks, had in them something nobler than she could find in the distresses of Christabel and Aunt Rose and Francis Sales, something redeeming them from the sordidness in which they were set. ...

— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG

... had some idea of joining his lot with his own people there. But he found them in a state of suffering destitution. They had been unfortunate in their choice of location, and were enduring an existence barer than the one they had left, without any of its redeeming features. Colin gave them all he had, and left them with promises of ...

— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... in the faces he met, he did not at first connect it with himself, but with the general bellicose excitement of the populace. Although the young Prince of Orange had rewarded their insurrectionary election of him to the Stadtholdership by redeeming them from the despair to which the French invasion and the English fleet had reduced them, although since his famous "I will die in the last ditch," Holland no longer strove to commit suicide by opening its own sluices, ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... a cactus could not be developed that had no spines. Accordingly, he began his work, and already has accomplished results far greater than he had expected. Not only has he developed spineless cactus, thus redeeming millions of acres of desert land for the use of animals, but he has also developed scores of varieties that are pleasing to the taste of man. Some taste like the cantaloupe, others like the peach, and still others like the plum or pomegranate. Fortunately, they ripen at all ...

— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... said he, "that Mr. Darby would take these bonds at the store for groceries and things, and we might pay him interest, besides redeeming the bonds when ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

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