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redeemable, a. and n.|rɪˈdiːməb(ə)l|
[f. redeem v. + -able.]
A. adj. Capable of being redeemed, in various senses of the vb.
1611Cotgr., Rachetable, redeemable; ransomable; recouerable for money. c1642Contra-Replicant's Compl. 16 Nations..are not congregable, nor consultable, nor redeemable from confusion (pardon the hardnesse of words). 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 216 To say, that we are not yet actually redeemed, but only made redeemable. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. Introd. (1852) 36 His forfeited powers may be redeemable. 1892Sat. Rev. 26 Mar. 349/2 Its defeat will be honourable and redeemable.
b. spec. Of property sold or mortgaged, bonds, stock, annuities, etc.: Capable or admitting of being repurchased or bought in again.
1646Z. Boyd in Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 31/1 The said Laird wodset sold and disponed to us..the lands of the barronie..under reversion alwayes redeemable from us. 1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. ii. iii. §22 (ed. 2) 205 Redeemable Rights are not so secure, because they may be evacuat by order of Redemption. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6199/1 The Royal Demesnes which have been alienated shall be redeemable by the Crown. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 165 The debt which the nation had incurred.., whether redeemable or irredeemable. 1868–9Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 1805 The very pearls that..Pietro pawned..Redeemable by somebody. 1882Globe 24 July 8/3 The same is hereby created to the amount of {pstlg}600,000 as a redeemable stock.
fig.1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. App. 341 A brilliant lecture-list is a paper issue which may, or may not, be redeemable at par.
B. n. pl. Redeemable property, stocks, annuities, etc. Now rare.
1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xvii. 367/2 Directors..applied themselves to take in the remainder of the Annuities and Redeemables. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Redeemables, are lands, funds, &c. sold with a reservation of the equity of redemption. 1882Standard 3 Nov. 6/3 For Perpetual Threes they ranged from 20 c. to 23 c.; for Redeemables, from 22 c. to 24 c.
Hence reˈdeemableness, capability of being redeemed; reˈdeemably adv., so as to be redeemable.
1727Bailey vol. II, Redeemableness. [Hence in Johnson and later Dicts.] 1827in Law Times Rep. (N.S.) L. 708/2 Real security for payment..heritably, but redeemably always in terms of the said bond. 1892Bruce Apologetics i. i. 6 Christianity has faith in the redeemableness of human beings. |