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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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"Redeem" Quotes from Famous Books

... my first thought was of action. More than ever did I now desire to become the purchaser of the beautiful slave—to redeem her from this hideous bondage. I should buy her. I should set her free. True or false to me, I should accomplish this all the same. I should make no claim for gratitude. She should choose for herself. She should be free, if not in the disposal of her gratitude, at least in that of her love. A love ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... far lower than is conceiveable. The French have an idea that they can imitate the American mode of punishment by solitary confinement. This again will be still worse than the galleys; since religious consolation can alone redeem or ameliorate man in this state of durance; and as this makes no part of the French system, I cannot help thinking the guillotine more merciful, than either their bagne ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19, Issue 546, May 12, 1832 • Various

... duties; and eternity lies beyond this little span. I call you to earnestness, moral earnestness. Determine to make the most and the best of your life. Get an education to fit you for life's duties, even though it must be gotten in the little fragments of time that you can redeem from busy days. Life is too short to crowd everything into it. Something must always be left out. Better leave out many of your amusements and recreations, than grow up into womanhood ignorant and with undisciplined ...

— Girls: Faults and Ideals - A Familiar Talk, With Quotations From Letters • J.R. Miller

... of to-morrow. I myself will call on you and redeem that precious document in person. You, on the other hand, will hold yourself at my disposition. That's understood, ...

— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy

... to obtain some of their coin, which carries on it the image of no earthly prince; but his head only who came to redeem us from general slavery on the one side, Jesus Christ; on the ...

— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi

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