REDEEM
\ɹɪdˈiːm], \ɹɪdˈiːm], \ɹ_ɪ_d_ˈiː_m]\
Definitions of REDEEM
- 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.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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By Princeton University
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To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
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To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
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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.
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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.
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Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
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To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
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To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
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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.
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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.
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Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
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To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To buy back; to free from bondage or slavery by paying a ransom or price; rescue; free from sin and its consequences; make good; as, to redeem a promise; make up for; as, to redeem a fault; to pay what is due on, as a promissory note; to recover, as property given for security to a bank, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To ransom: to relieve from captivity by a price: to rescue: to pay the penalty of: to atone for: to perform, as a promise: to improve: to recover, as a pledge.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To purchase back; to ransom; to rescue; to free by making atonement; to make good; to deliver from the bondage of sin and its penalties; to be more diligent in improving.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To deliver from captivity, or from any liability to suffer, by paying a price; to ransom; to recover; to repurchase; to save or improve, as time; to make good by performance; to regain a thing alienated by repaying the price of it to the possessor; to perform the work of redemption.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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