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redemptory, a. Now rare.|rɪˈdɛm(p)tərɪ|
[ad. L. type *redemptōrius: see redempt and -ory.]
Of or pertaining to redemption; redemptive.
1598Chapman Iliad i. 94 Till to her loved sire The black⁓ey'd damsell be resign'd; no redemtorie hire Tooke for her freedome. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 61 That redemptory & absolut sacrifice, which was to be offred but once. 1675Brooks Golden Key Wks. 1867 V. 255 λύτρον signifies a redemptory price, a valuable rate. 1886H. James Bostonians III. iii. xxxvii. 126 A woman could live on persistently, clinging to a great, vivifying, redemptory idea. |