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redeemer|rɪˈdiːmə(r)|
Also 6 redeamer, redemer, -ar, Sc. redemour, redimar.
[f. redeem v. + -er1.]
1. One who redeems, in religious sense; (with capital initial) God or Christ regarded as saving man from sin or its effects. (Cf. redemptor.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 201 A man.. havynge woundes in his body lyke to the woundes of Criste, seyenge that he was redemer of man. 1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 2 My King, my Lord, and my Redeemer sweit. 1540Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 278, I pray the eternall Redemer to preserue you all in long lyffe. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. i. 123 The precious Image of our deere Redeemer. 1667Milton P.L. x. 61 Mans Friend, his Mediator, his design'd Both Ransom and Redeemer voluntarie. 1712Addison Spect. No. 273 ⁋9 The whole God⁓head..under the Three-fold Distinction of a Creator, a Redeemer and a Comforter! 1794Paley Evid. iii. iv. (1817) 309 The Redeemer and the destined Judge of the human race. 1897Catholic Dict. (ed. 5) 776/1 The older heresies directly impugned the Person of the Redeemer.
2. One who redeems, in other senses of the vb.
1552Huloet, Borower or redeamer of his gage, repignerator. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. v. 20 He would algates with Pyrochles fight, And his redeemer chaleng'd for his foe. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. iv. 91 The redeemer of the remainder of the captiue Troyans that were in Greece. 1672Life & Death J. Alleine vi. 60 He was a careful redeemer of his time. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (ed. 2) I. 340 Rome..riots in the Blood of her Redeemers.
†3. [tr. L. redemptor.] A contractor. Obs.
a1610Healey Theophrastus To Rdr., These Redeemers (so tearmed) were such as did hire scaffolds or stages, instantly to be made. Ibid. (1636) 47 He sendeth them..for the redeemers of the Theaters.
Hence reˈdeemeress, a female redeemer; reˈdeemership, the office of a redeemer.
1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martin's 42 A Sauiour of their Sauiours and Sauiouresses: a Redeemer of their Redeemeresses. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 501 Could any one then deny the Redeemership of the Christ? |