RANSOM
\ɹˈansəm], \ɹˈansəm], \ɹ_ˈa_n_s_ə_m]\
Definitions of RANSOM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
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payment for the release of someone
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money demanded for the return of a captured person
By Princeton University
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the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
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payment for the release of someone
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money demanded for the return of a captured person
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
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The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
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A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
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To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
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To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
By Oddity Software
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The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
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The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
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A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
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To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
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To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ransomer.
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Price paid for redemption from captivity or punishment: release from captivity.
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To redeem from captivity, punishment, or ownership.
By Daniel Lyons
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Ransomer.
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To secure the release of for a price; redeem.
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Money paid for the release of a person or property captured.
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Release purchased, as from captivity; redemption.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The price paid for the redemption of a prisoner of slave, or for goods captured by an enemy; release from captivity, bondage, or possession of an enemy; a sum or a fine paid for a pardon; the price paid to procure the pardon of sins, and the redemption of the sinner.
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To redeem from captivity or bondage; to redeem from the bondage of sin. See Redemption.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Price paid for the freedom of a prisoner or slave, or for the restitution of goods taken by an enemy; a fine paid for pardon, or in lieu of corporal punishment.
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To free from captivity, slavery, or punishment, by the payment of a price; to redeem from the bondage or punishment of sin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Latin] Release from captivity, bondage, or the possession of an enemy ;-the money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy ; -in Scripture, the price paid for a forfeited life, or for delivery from capital punishment;-hence, the life of Christ given as a purchase or redemption of the lives of many ; the atonement.
