† redeemn.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
The act of redeeming; redemption.
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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 1019 The Roman bukis at than was in Scotland He gart be brocht..And but radem thai brynt thaim thar Ilkan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
redeemv.
/rᵻˈdiːm/, U.S. /rəˈdim/, /riˈdim/ 1. Theology. Esp. of God or Christ: to deliver (a person, a soul, etc.) from sin or damnation. Cf. ransom v. 1a.
a. transitive. With preposition, as from, to, unto, etc.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)]
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c1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) ii. 246 (MED) Thorw þe vertu of hys Passyon sufferyng & hys precyows blod schedyng, sche was redemyd fro euyr-lestyng peyne.
a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 112 (MED) The hevynly kyng enteryd thy close virgynall, Man to redeme from dedely synne.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Rev. v. 9 Thou wast killed, and hast redemed vs to God by thy bloude.
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xxv. 201 Iacob saith, Gen. 48. 16. The Angell which redeemed mee (you read, deliuereth mee) from all euill, blesse these Lads: where, first, you bely your owne reading.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 28 He hath redeemed us from our bondage.
1729 W. Law Serious Call x. 141 To redeem souls unto God, to fill Heaven with saints.
1754 C. Wesley Hymns (ed. 3) xxxii A slave redeem'd from death, and sin.
a1817 T. Dwight Theol. (1819) V. clxi. 376 You are the very sinners, whom he came to redeem from the sins of this life, and the sorrows of that which is to come.
1866 Boston Rev. Oct. 485 Is not the church a thing to be used..in redeeming this world to Christ?
1908 P. T. Forsyth Missions in State & Church 271 We owe ourselves..to the eternal God redeeming us to His eternal self in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
1960 C. D. Freeman tr. A. D. R. Polman Barth iii. 48 The meaning and goal of the life of the elect is not that they are redeemed from sin..but that they are chosen to be a witness of Christ's election in the world.
2002 New Statesman 25 Nov. 58/2 The resulting ecological catastrophe was simply our way of giving thanks to the Christ-child for having redeemed us from all such mistakes.
b. transitive. Without construction. Also intransitive.
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c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 316 (MED) The secound commyng..was at þis tyme vhen þat he com to redeme man.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 231 (MED) So mony generaciones were betwene Lamech and Criste, which redemede mankynde.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 183 Bot thow rademe, na liff thai ordand me.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 262 Thow that on rude ws ransounit and redemit.
1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 233 Subiecte your selues whollye to God: for he hath redemed you.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter i. xvi. 295 Mankind had not beene redeemed, unlesse the word of God had beene hominified.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xli. 262 Our Saviour..was not King of those that he Redeemed, before hee suffered death.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 21 God manifested in the flesh, sent from Heaven to redeem a lost World.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 279 A soul redeemed demands a life of praise.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. x. 240 The others, who refused to be redeemed,—They stand, unsanctified.
1860 Home, School & Church 10 165 For did not Christ redeem the whole man?
1900 Daily Iowa Capital 7 Mar. 5/5 We are redeemed by His blood.
1959 L. A. Fiedler Jew in Amer. Novel ii. 32 The challenge to an unbelieved-in God to redeem Williamsburg at the end of Fuchs' first novel.
1996 J. E. Parker in J. C. Hawley Through Glass Darkly vi. 111 Adam fell and Christ redeems.
2004 S. Miller Women in Mark's Gospel xi. 175 Jesus redeems human beings and inaugurates the new age through his death on the cross.
2. † c. transitive. To avenge, repay (a wrong). Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. Of a person: to make amends or atonement for (an error, sin, or failing).
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone for [verb (transitive)]
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a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 106 He warned þe king, as Daniel ded Nabugodonosor, to redeme his sinnes with elmesse.
a1500 Craft of Deyng (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 168 To Radem the trespas that adam and Eue commytyt in paradice.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cviijv Yf any man wound another..he redemeth thoffence.
1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects Introd. The President, was urgent with me, to redeeme their omissions.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 214 Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Mans mortal crime? View more context for this quotation
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 257 They will labour to redeem all that is pass'd by turning..violently against them.
a1794 E. Gibbon Antiq. House of Brunswick in Misc. Wks. (1796) II. 669 The naked heir might often complain, that his father's sins had been redeemed at too high a price.
1834 Southern Literary Messenger Oct. 59/2 He hastened to redeem his error.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 743 Snorro makes him redeem former misdeeds by saving Cnut when in great danger.
1912 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 27 Dec. 7/7 Oswald will hear nothing against Orlando. He says that he has redeemed his fault.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid i. 14 Next time, I shall not let you so lightly redeem your sins.
1985 Amer. Econ. Rev. 75 8/2 The right time to act was of course in November, but when that opportunity was missed it was not easy..to redeem the error.
b. transitive. To make good (a loss).
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a1576 Lady Abergavenny Praiers in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones (1582) ii. 162 Thou sparedst not thy most pretious bloud to redeeme the losse of our first father Adam.
a1627 J. Beaumont Bosworth-field (1629) 3 If some resistlesse strength my cause should crosse, Feare will increase, and not redeeme the losse.
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xvi, in Poems 8 The Babe..That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lvi. 223 The Squire..wrecked his vengeance on the cards, which he..committed to the flames with many execrations; threatning to make us redeem our loss with a large glass and a quick circulation.
1786 M. A. Meilan tr. A. Berquin Children's Friend XV. 136 I could wish, indeed, I had sufficient to redeem my loss.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 528 The English were eager to redeem by a victory the loss of Trincomalee.
1888 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 4 June 8/2 If the visitors had any hope of redeeming their loss when they came to bat in the ninth they were mistaken.
1938 E. Cowling Co-operatives in Amer. ix. 126 Losses totaling $150,000 were incurred. But conservative management slowly redeemed the loss.
1980 Times 20 Dec. 14/2 God the Father had redeemed the loss of grace mankind had suffered as a result of the first Adam's fall.
2006 T. P. Anderson Performing Early Mod. Trauma i. 2 Elizabeth's birth as the moment of transcendence that redeems all loss that came before.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > avenge (an injury or injured person)
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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 132 I will redeeme all this on Percies head. View more context for this quotation
3.
a. To ransom (a person) from slavery, captivity, or punishment; to save (a person's life) by paying a ransom.
(a) transitive. With preposition or (occasionally) adverb of direction, as from, out of, to, home, etc.
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1465 Gregory's Will in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) p. xlvii (MED) The residue of all my goodes..I gif to myn executours..to thentent that they dispose it..in acquiting and redemyng of prisoners oute of the prisons in London.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. xx.iiii In his treasoure hous is rychesse innumerable, wherwith..he may redeme all ye world from the prysone & captyuyte of ye deuyll.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 85 Shall our coffers then Be emptied, to redeeme a traitor home? View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Deut. vii. 8 The Lord..redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh. View more context for this quotation
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xvii. 471 He that redeems a slave out of Turkish captivity [etc.].
1729 W. Law Serious Call xiii. 216 To redeem a prisoner out of jayl.
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 205 That very brother whom Mr. Arnold had redeemed from a gaol and peril of hanging.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 282 It was, for a long time, generally expected..that the State would thus be redeemed to freedom.
1932 J. F. Rippy Hist. Evol. Hispanic Amer. vii. 128 King Sebastian had forbidden the enslavement of any Indians save those captured in a just war or redeemed from captivity among other tribes.
1975 M. Kammen Colonial N.Y. vi. 156 Fletcher's broadside soliciting contributions to redeem Christians from slavery in Morocco.
1990 C. G. Calloway Western Abenakis of Vermont (1994) i. 30 He redeemed one child from Bécancour, but the St. Francis Abenakis refused to release two other children.
(b) transitive. Without construction.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > ransom > [verb (transitive)]
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to buy out1297
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to put (a person) to (his or her) finance1418
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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 429 Darius..sende lettres to kynge Alexander that he myȝhte redeme [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. ransome; L. redimere] men taken in captiuite with hes goodes.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 70 The weir is gon,..The ransoun maid, the presoneris redemit.
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 231/16 The erll..redemit his cosing and restorit him to his lordschip.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 84 I sent you Monie to redeeme you, By Dromio heere. View more context for this quotation
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. ii. sig. K4v The Turkish Empire offer'd for his ransome Should not redeeme his life.
a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 101 The Christians, Slaves to Pagans sold, Whom he redeem'd with Gold.
1785 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) I. 477 In order to justify ourselves for undertaking to redeem you, without orders.
1810 P. S. Du Ponceau tr. C. Van Bynkershoek Treat. Law of War iii. 20 Prisoners of war, if they are not redeemed, are very often released, even without a ransom.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 31 His mistress is going to send down money to redeem him.
a1924 S. Dill Rom. Society in Gaul (1926) iii. ii. 427 S. Geneviève..braved all the perils of that stormy time to redeem the captive or bring food to a famishing town.
1998 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 8 Feb. a64/1 The Swiss-based charity has made more than a dozen risky, clandestine bush flights to southern Sudan to redeem 800 slaves since 1995.
b. transitive (reflexive). To free oneself from slavery, captivity, or punishment by paying a ransom. Also with construction.
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?1549 R. Wyer tr. C. de Pisan C. Hyst. Troye sig. k6v Where as he was solde, by his synne to the enemye of hell, and had not where with to redeme hym selfe... And the sonne sayd. Take me for thy Raunsome and redeme thy selfe by me.
1599 R. Hakluyt tr. Friar Ordoricus in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 58 Whomsoeuer of their foes they take in battel not being able to ransom himselfe for money, they presently deuoure him: but if he be able to redeeme himselfe for money, they let him go free.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 113 One Abraham, found a Delinquent, redeemes himselfe for seven hundred Markes.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 301 He had been a slave 9 years, then redeemed himself.
1729 J. Hippisley Flora ii. ii. 28 If ever you wou'd redeem your self or me from eternal Bondage, be kind, and fly into the Arms of Liberty.
1837 L. R. Sunderland Anti-slavery Man. (ed. 2) viii. 45 Jewish servants..could be redeemed or redeem themselves at any time.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 657 He was therefore suffered to redeem himself by giving a bond for forty thousand pounds.
1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 373 Among the Sungu and the Olemba many Batetela tribesmen are in a state of slavery. These..allow their slaves to redeem themselves, for slaves may own property everywhere.
1990 J. Sumption Hundred Years War (1999) I. xiv. 511 Some of the lesser prisoners redeemed themselves quite quickly. But the greater ones were destined to spend several years in captivity.
4.
a. transitive. To free, recover (mortgaged property, something put in pledge, etc.) by payment of an amount due or by fulfilment of an obligation. Also figurative. Also intransitive.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn > redeem from pawn or pledge
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society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > buy back > from pawn
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1474 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 527 To..frie and redeim all and sundry my landis.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 86 Thow sall los a gage Quhilk neuir in erd sall be redemyt agayne.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Repignero, to quite or redeme a pledge or gage.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 856 He redemed the Marques Dorcet, and Sir John Bourchier whome he hadde left as pledges at Paris for money there before borowed.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vi. 266 They are constrained to lay their sonnes to gage, and then goe rob and rifle trauellers to redeeme them againe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iii. 8 My honor is at pawne, And but my going, nothing can redeeme it. View more context for this quotation
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 159 They will allow the mortgagor at any reasonable time to re-call or redeem his estate.
1793 J. Nichols in J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 36 Dr. Johnson collected a sum of money to redeem his friend's clothes, which in two days after were pawned again.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 284 To him thy woes, thy wishes, bring; He will redeem his signet ring.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 387 On a bill by a mortgagee, to redeem or foreclose.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 411 The Crown jewels had been pledged... Edward was not in a condition to redeem them.
1925 Yale Law Jrnl. 34 905 Actions to redeem real or personal property from mortgage or lien.
1960 Blackwood's Mag. July 74 I can only hope that..he will redeem one of the innumerable suits he assures me he has in pawn all over the world.
1990 M. Brave Bird & R. Erdoes Lakota Woman (1991) v. 61 I have seen traders take Indian jewelry..in pawn for five dollars' worth of food and then sell it for hundreds of dollars to a collector when the Indian owner could not redeem the article within a given time.
b. transitive. To relieve, get rid of (a burden or obligation) by making some form of payment; to discharge, pay off (a debt, mortgage, or similar obligation).
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society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > pay to be rid of
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c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 217 (MED) They redemyd [Fr. racheterent] and bought with thaire blood and deth the seruitute and desolacion of thaire peeple.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxvi. f. xxixv It was answered that they hadde redemed the sayd Trybute with the Pryce of theyr bloode.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 231 (MED) Godiue..naked throughout all Couentree, The tolles sore and seruage agayn right To redeme hole of her femynitee.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 298 To the ende they should redeeme this voyage with money.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxxviii. 119 Now that there was no remedy to redeem their slauery but by resistance.
1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iii. sig. F4 Is there no way left to redeeme my miseries?
1705 ‘F. Telltroth’ Lunatick iii. 36 I have resolv'd to Redeem the Mortgage.
1784 S. Gale Ess. on Nature & Princ. Public Credit ii. 18 The interest for the loss also will for ever continue to be paid, until the debt be redeemed.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 59 A judgement against a purchaser of an equity of redemption, or to redeem incumbrances, &c.
1856 New Monthly Mag. 107 3 We can rarely convince the creditor of one who has nothing but his skin that he cannot redeem his obligation.
1905 Times 11 Apr. 7/3 If we redeemed our debt in proportion as our wealth increased, we should again be able..to raise large sums of money in case of emergency without feeling any undue pressure at the moment.
1962 M. Blaug Econ. Theory in Retrospect vi. 200 Walras's scheme was to pay the proprietors with bonds, using future rents to pay interest and to redeem the loan.
1997 H. de Schepper & J. M. Cauchies in A. Padoa-Schioppa Legislation & Justice xiii. 242 The delinquent could redeem his obligation to go on pilgrimage by paying a sum of money.
c. transitive. To fulfil, carry out (a pledge or promise).
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > observance or carrying out a promise, law, etc. > observe or carry out a promise, law, etc. [verb (transitive)] > specifically a promise
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1795 Suppl. in tr. J.-M. Roland de La Platière Appeal to Impartial Posterity i. 181 Mademoiselle Desportes had made me promise to write to her; I redeemed my promise.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. (1887) 559 Clive redeemed his pledge. He..effected one of the most..difficult and salutary reforms.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 408 Some consciousness of not having redeemed their engagements.
1949 D. F. W. van Lennep in Euripides Sel. Plays I. 2 The action starts on the fatal day on which Alkestis is to redeem her pledge.
1994 Casa Grande (Arizona) Disp. 11 July 4 Democrats..could claim to have redeemed the promise they made in the heady days after Clinton's victory.
5. † a. transitive. To rescue, save, or deliver (a person or thing) from a particular situation. Also with out. Also intransitive. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)]
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to bring off1609
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 359 Wallace that has rademyt Scotland.
c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. 852 This knight..Into ane lyoun long was deformat, Quhill King Clariodus..Redeimit him.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. Argt. sig. G5v Faire virgin to redeeme her deare Brings Arthure to the fight.
1591 King James VI & I Lepanto Chorus Venetis Their netts were sett about, But yet our dearest Father in Heauen, He hath redeemed vs out.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. l. 2 Is my hande shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme ? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 88 Leuied an Army, weening to redeeme, And haue install'd me in the Diademe. View more context for this quotation
1683 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 42 The rout..laid wait for Charlet's comming out of the Castle. He therefore sends a letter to the vice-chancellor to redeem him.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 431 He thrusts aside The Crowd of Centaurs; and redeems the Bride.
1814 W. Scott in J. Swift Wks. XIX. 368 He redeemed the half-boiled leg of mutton..and carried it with him to Mr Cusack's.
1871 R. Browning Balaustion 55 The man was like some merchant who, in storm, Throws the freight over to redeem the ship.
b. transitive. To rescue, save, or deliver (a person or thing) from (also out of) a particular state or situation.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)]
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to bring off1609
1549 R. Crowley Psalter of Dauid cxxx. sig. Ppi For he redemeth Israel, from al his wyckednes: And setteth all his people free, from theyr iniquities.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 180 Let me redeeme my brothers both from death. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxv. 22 Redeeme Israel, O God, out of all his Troubles. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 377 Redeem from this Reproach, my wand'ring Ghost.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 67 King James..would often say, ‘that his access to the Crown of England was the more valuable to him, as it redeem'd him from the subjection to the ill manners..of those Preachers’.
1819 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 332 My creed should have redeemed me from repenting.
1843 E. Miall in Nonconf. 3 209 We trust we have said enough to redeem the voluntary principle from contempt.
1905 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 19 362 The addition made to the income of the poorest people would not be sufficient to redeem them from poverty.
1986 R. J. Hollingdale tr. F. Nietzsche Human, all too Human ii. i There are many things we must leave in the Hades of half-conscious feeling, and not desire to redeem them out of their shadow existence.
1998 W. R. Ward in N. Tyacke England's Long Reformation xi. 289 Charles Wesley redeemed a lost daughter of his from deism and reconciled her with her father.
c. transitive (reflexive). To save oneself; to deliver oneself from a particular state or situation.
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1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1331 Arise, and doo thy selfe redeeme from shame.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 501 How faine would I haue hated all mankinde, And thou redeem'st thy selfe. View more context for this quotation
1702 S. Centlivre Beau's Duel v. 48 Two Days more of this, and I shall grow Mad, or to Redeem my self, dash out my Brains.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 225 They redeemed themselves with prayers and promises from their hands.
1833 Sat. Mag. 20 July 24/2 A nightingale being taken in a snare, would redeem herself by three good words.
1861 Danville Q. Rev. June 318 [The nation] has already redeemed itself from the ignomonious fate to which the last Federal Administration had consigned it.
1956 N. J. Dawood tr. Koran lxx. 57 To redeem himself from the torment of that day the sinner will gladly sacrifice his children..if then this might deliver him.
2000 I. F. Osagie Amistad Revolt (2003) vi. 126 The director fails to depict adequately the Africans as active participants in their attempts to redeem themselves from bondage.
d. transitive. To reclaim (land) for cultivation or habitation. Also with from.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)]
ina1387
reclaim1440
improve1523
win1531
mitigate1601
reform1607
stuba1650
regain1652
redeem1671
reduce1726
to bring to1814
to bring in1860
to break in1891
green1967
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [verb (transitive)] > prograde
redeem1671
prograde1909
1671 J. Beale Let. 21 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 408 Lands freshly redeemed from ye Sea are most accomodable for Modern Improvements.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 11 Those Levels which are of large extent, and not easy to be redeemed when a Breach is made.
1827 tr. F. C. L. von M. Riedesal Lett. & Mem. relating War Amer. Independence 216 Whole forests are sometimes burnt down, to redeem land for the purposes of agriculture.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 138 We find evidence that considerable spaces were redeemed from the original ocean and converted into dry land after the chalk was formed.
1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 161 The population of the uplands..by ditching and diking and draining redeemed a few acres of soil from the reluctant grasp of the sluggish waters.
1961 W. E. Stuermann tr. A. Schweitzer Pilgrimage to Humanity iv. 59 I thought of Goethe, who had his Faust busy at the end redeeming the land from the sea.
1995 N. G. Finkelstein Image & Reality of Israel-Palestine Confl. (2003) iv. 96 The new Jewish settlements were said to have ‘redeemed’ the land; the areas ‘densely populated by Arab villages’ were regarded..‘as though they were empty of inhabitants’.
1999 Afr.-Amer. Rev. 33 396/1 Land redeemed from the swamp.
6.
a. transitive. To restore, bring, or elevate (a person or thing) into (also to) a particular condition or state. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a thing to or into previous condition
reversec1350
reforma1393
recover1393
converta1425
reduce?a1425
revolve1431
returnc1436
recure?1440
remayne1481
relieve1483
redressc1500
restaur1508
reprieve?1567
recollect1606
redeem1613
regain1624
to bring back1662
re-reducea1676
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [verb (transitive)]
uprighta1340
to bring to (one's) statea1387
restorea1387
remount?c1400
reducec1425
redraw1480
reintegrate1495
restitutec1503
repair?1521
revocate1527
recall1567
redintegrate1578
rehabilitate1580
refetch1599
revindicate1609
re-estate1611
uprighten1618
redintegrate1622
restate1625
redeem1686
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 1068 For goddis saik radeym ws anys to grace And tak the croun.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. To Rdr. sig. ¶¶iii Certayne [stories] haue I culled out of the Decamerone..that be worthy to be condempned to perpetuall prison, but of them suche haue I redemed to the liberty of our vulgar, as may be best liked.
1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 215 The Cantonnes and confederate people of Suitzerland..did take armes, and by battle and victorie..redeeme and reduce themselues into a ciuill and popular State.
1613 Middleton (title) The triumphs of Truth... Directed, written, and redeem'd into forme, from the ignorance of some former times.
1686 J. Norris Let. in Theory & Regulation Love (1688) 203 As to the redeeming us into the ability of closing with what is discern'd best.
1754 T. Sherlock Several Disc. preached at Temple Church I. v. 185 Our blessed Master has abolished Death, and redeemed us into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God.
a1767 W. Farington Serm. Important Subj. (1769) vii. 165 We are fallen creatures: a Divine person thought it necessary to redeem us into a better state.
1843 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. Sept. 127 A thorough beating up of the haunts of the wretched, a pursuing and finding them in their own homes, and almost by violence redeeming them into the Kingdom of God.
1858 F. T. Palgrave Passionate Pilgrim ii. 56 The predominance of Love..is the one feature that redeems it into any ideal beauty.
1949 Hispania 32 313 The later palomillas are redeemed into honesty and respectability.
1991 R. Seelye in J. London White Fang & Call of Wild (new ed.) Introd. p. xvii Buck is never redeemed back into the human family.
b. transitive. To restore to a former good state or condition; to set right again.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 7b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]
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amendc1230
bootc1330
correctc1374
menda1375
recovera1398
dighta1400
restorea1400
redressa1402
recurec1425
remedyc1425
remeidc1480
emendc1485
richa1500
rightena1500
chastisea1513
rectifya1529
redeem1575
salve1575
remed1590
reclaim1593
renew1608
retrieve1625
recruit1673
raccommode1754
splice1803
doctor1829
remediate1837
right-side1847
sort1948
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)]
recovera1382
recurea1382
reparela1382
instore1382
store1387
restorec1390
redressc1405
repeal1479
rectifya1529
restauratea1538
redeem1575
instaurate1583
upright1601
upseta1652
reficiate1657
rehabilitate1663
retrieve1665
re-establish1706
re-rail1914
rehab1961
1575 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. 28 Hee wyll redeeme our deadly drowping state.
1760 J. Hanway Candid Hist. Acct. Hosp. (ed. 2) iii. 30 It was a proof of their wisdom to..support the poor, that they might have a chance of redeeming their fortunes.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 30 With his barbed horse..Stout Cromwell has redeemed the day.
1895 N.Y. Times 13 Sept. 1/3 Employes of the newspaper began clearing away the wreck on the floor above the pressrooms and the compositors and writers were endeavoring to redeem the situation.
1924 A. Nevins Amer. States during & after Revol. (1927) ix. 393 By these recessions from a vindictive measure, South Carolina in some measure redeemed her reputation for a generous chivalry.
1980 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 28 Oct. 4/1 An old East Dallas neighborhood being redeemed by a flood of new residents.
2007 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 27 The beleaguered Vodafone chief executive, has made a bold attempt to redeem his sagging reputation with a £5.6bn deal to buy a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar.
7.
a. transitive. To buy back (a former possession); to make payment for (a thing held or claimed by another). Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > buy back
redeema1500
repurchase1533
rebuy1611
retreat?c1682
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ii. l. 365 Off Egipte al þe tenendreis He redemyt þaim agayn, And maid þaim to the kynge demayn.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xxv. 25 Then shall he redeme that his brother solde.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 339 Thair was the peace maid, and with a smal soume redeimet the hail Jles.
1627 Hist. Fryer Bacon sig. B3 I..lent him money, not onely to buy him victuals, but also to redeeme his lands and pay his debts.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xli. 262 He that redeemeth, hath no title to the thing redeemed, before the Redemption.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes ii. 80 The Firstling of the Ass which was to be redeemed with a Lamb.
1746 tr. F. de S. de la M. Fénelon Lett. to Duke of Burgundy iii. 12 His expences tho' very great were so well regulated, that he redeem'd all his crown-lands.
1833 A. T. Malkin Gallery of Portraits I. 127 The Florentines, proud of such a countryman, had redeemed his paternal property, and earnestly invited him to dwell in his own land.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 828 Rights of reversion..must be exercised within forty years from the time at which the proprietor is allowed to redeem.
1903 Jrnl. Semitic Langs. & Lit. 19 145 The punctuators..thought the field must have been sold already, that the Goël must redeem it and thus restore the ground to the family of which he is a part.
2001 E. U. Alexander Notorious Woman i. 15 Coxe journeyed to the island, redeemed his ship, and gave command to Davis.
b. transitive. To regain, recover (an immaterial thing).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > again or back
acovera1225
covera1300
gain-covera1300
to get againc1380
recovera1387
becoverc1400
recounsel?a1425
recurea1425
win1489
redeem1526
readept1537
rehave1541
recuperate1542
regain1548
reobtain1579
retire1584
reget1585
to get back1587
retrieve1589
reprise1590
reprocure1590
reattain1595
relieve1596
recompassc1604
reacquire1627
reacquist1635
recruit1656
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Diiiv Who may redeme grace or recouer it, whan he hath loste it?
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 47 Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion. View more context for this quotation
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 82 He would redeeme (if possible) his health with the losse of halfe his Learning.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 107 Then, to redeem his Honour at a blow, He moves his Camp. View more context for this quotation
1702 J. Dunton Hist. Living Men viii. 107 Thus he redeems that Honour on the Shore which in former years we had like to have lost at Sea.
?1754 Mock Monarchs I. xix. 220 [They] redeemed their Honour, changed the face of things, and only made their Foes pay dearer for their Victories.
1833 Ann. Biogr. & Obituary 17 240 It was now too late..to redeem the health that had fled.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. vii. 171 If this friend..had since redeemed, or in part redeemed, her position by a second marriage.
1931 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 14 81 An agitation by certain powerful persons to redeem their family honour and to secure full restitution of rights.
1990 R. M. Polhemus Erotic Faith viii. 212 Being in love..at least gives her the chance..to redeem the integrity she lost in marrying Kennedy.
c. transitive. To regain, recover by force (a person or thing).Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 5.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > with violence or forcibly
reaveeOE
latchc950
seize1338
rape?1387
wrestc1426
extort1529
redeema1578
wreathe1590
force1602
extend1610
wrencha1616
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > with violence or forcibly > back
rescue1540
redeema1578
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 34 The gowernor..disolvit the seasing and redemit all the landis that war conquerit be Ingland in winning of the feild.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 clxvii. 43 The toils of war we must endure, And, from thInjurious Dutch redeem the Seas.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide iv. ix. 62 The Sword of Stuart was already drawn To sacrifice my Daughter, when Dunbar..interpos'd, Redeem'd the trembling Victim, and repelled His Rival's Fury on his hapless Head.
a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1884) I. 153 Redeem, what Crassus lost, and vindicate his name.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 200 The Gael, of plain and river heir, Shall, with strong hand, redeem his share.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands ii. 204 His own patrimony had been much wasted by riotous expences, and these he sought to redeem by fraud and violence.
1967 M. F. Nims tr. Geoffrey of Vinsauf in O. B. Hardison & L. Golden Horace for Students of Lit. (1995) ii. 106 Shamefully was I seized long ago, and I am not yet wrested back, not yet redeemed by the sword.
1997 M. H. Davidson tr. F. de Oviedo in Columbus Then & Now xiii. 396 [He] not forgetting the imprisonment of his brother decided to go and redeem him by force of arms, going with the intent of taking all of the Christians that he could.
8. transitive. To free from an obligation or claim. Frequently with from. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > free from obligation
freeeOE
unbind1297
quitclaima1325
acquit1340
excuse1340
loose1340
releasec1350
assoil1366
soilc1384
dischargea1387
quita1387
relieve1416
absoil1440
deliver1440
acquittance1448
quiet1450
acquiet1453
absolve?a1475
defease1475
skill1481
relax1511
redeema1513
exoner1533
exonerate1548
solvec1550
distask1592
disgage1594
upsolve1601
disoblige1603
disengage1611
to get off1623
exclude1632
supersedea1644
to let off1814
to let out1869
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccvi. f. cxxviv He..redemed the Scole of Saxons, fre of all former trybute.
1706 G. L. Noble & Renowned Hist. G. Earl of Warwick 155 I overcome him in the Field, and slew him dead right valliantly; Where I the Land did then redeem From Danish Tribute utterly.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 178 The clergy in the old provinces did not pay the capitation; but they had redeemed themselves at the expence of about 24 millions. View more context for this quotation
1852 E. Smith Inq. Scriptual & Anc. Servitude i. 39 In the establishing of the Aaronic priesthood the first-born was to be redeemed from the claim of the patriarchal priesthood.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 210 It would almost seem as if a yearly tribute of thirty pounds..redeemed the borough from all claims.
1994 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 42 498 The holder of the land could redeem it from the obligation to make annual payments or payments on sale.
a. transitive. To obtain by purchase, to buy. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)]
cheapc950
buyc1000
takea1382
purchasec1390
costa1400
coffc1425
redeem?1520
cope1570
fetch1605
shop1944
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xvii. f. 24v This Iugurth redemed of Calphurnius, but onely delayng and deferryng of the warre.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxv The tyme woulde come, wherin they would wyshe to haue redemed his frendshyp derely.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 693 The emperour must in many things yeeld to the requests of the French king, and redeeme his good will.
1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iii. ii. 132 But aged Folk..will find it harder and dearer, to redeem this, the last Volume, then if they had been Chapmen for all three at the first.
1729 S. Madden Themistocles ii. i. 23 With half my Realms, I would redeem your Friendship.
1766 J. Entick New Hist. London I. 142 He demanded a very large sum by way of ransom, i.e. to redeem the king's favour, which was called a tallage.
b. transitive. poetic. To go in exchange for. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] > give in exchange
redeem1575
change1609
1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame 42 If that death might life redeeme, and life were bought with death: Ten thousande to restore your lyfe, woulde render vytall breath.
1599 T. Storer Life & Death Wolsey sig. Cv For thee thy toiling oxen ioyne in teeme, And after with their death thy life redeeme.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I3v Oh that my life..Would but redeeme one minute of his breath!
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 108 Would some part of my young yeeres Might but redeeme the passage of your Age. View more context for this quotation
1682 M. Coppinger Poems, Songs & Love-verses 44 But O that yet my life cou'd thine redeem, My Soul shou'd vanish as of no esteem.
10. transitive. To make the best use of (time); to prevent (time) from being lost or wasted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > save or spare time
redeem1526
steal1526
spare1548
save?1556
behusband?a1639
retrieve1688
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Coloss. iv. 5 Walke wysely to them that are with out, and redeme the tyme.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 214 Redeeming time when men thinke least I wil. View more context for this quotation
1621 H. Wotton Let. in Archaeologia (1866) 40 277 It hath been thought fitt to redeeme some of the tyme..by resummoning the Parlament.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Gg8 That precious Time, which no sum..can either purchase or redeem.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 9 Redeem we Time?—Its loss we dearly buy.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 561 Not to redeem his time, but his estate.
1836 Sc. Christian Herald 13 Aug. 377/2 We redeem the time, when we avoid all those causes of interruption in God's work, by which our precious time is wasted.
1880 J. F. Clarke Self-culture (1889) iii. 78 He worked, not by faith, but by sight,..with indefatigable energy, redeeming the time.
1962 C. Emery World Dylan Thomas (1968) 2 On the train to London, he monopolizes the lavatory for hours, redeeming the time by ripping and flushing away names and addresses of people in London who could be of use to him.
2002 S. Edwards & K. Mathews New Doors in Ministry to Women ii. vii. 119 Those who are..interested in community need to redeem time and accomplish something!
11.
a. transitive. Of a quality, action, etc.: to make up for, compensate for, counterbalance (a failing, defect, or fault).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for
restorea1325
to make good1389
boot1393
rewarda1398
supplya1398
to make up1472
upset1513
to fetch again1535
redeem1590
balance1594
pay1596
unpay1600
to make out1610
requitea1613
to pay home1625
encourage1628
compensate1646
compensate1656
reprise1662
to take up1662
to fetch up1665
to pay off1717
indemnify1750
to bring up arrears1788
equalize1866
reparate1956
1590 Sir P. Sidney Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia ii. xxii. f. 200 Extreamely faultie; and yet having no good thing to redeeme both these.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. E2v The wrongs that you haue seene In me, my future vertues shall redeeme.
a1627 J. Beaumont Bosworth-field (1629) 7 Then doubled haste redeemes his former pause.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iv. 57 A Monster, to whom every Vice lays claim Without one Virtue to redeem his Fame.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlviii. 27 His want of virtue was not redeemed by any superior talents.
a1826 W. Gifford Ford's Plays (1827) I. Introd. 15 There is nothing to redeem the absurdity of the plot.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §6. 87 His bravery had redeemed much of his earlier ill-fame.
1928 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 10 May There was an intensity in his voice which redeemed the arrogance of his manner.
1962 G. Harkness in F. H. Littell Reformation Stud. 14 I cannot say there was no drudgery about it, but the drudgery was redeemed by an interest that made it worthful.
2008 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 11 Feb. 54 An intriguing setting and well-developed characters partially redeem the weak story line.
b. transitive. To save (a person or thing) from a failing, defect, or fault. Frequently with from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] > specific any evil condition > a thing or person from an evil condition
healc825
wholeOE
redeema1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 276 He hath out-villain'd villanie so farre, that the raritie redeemes him. View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 664 A spark, Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and absolute disgrace.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin II. xiii. 226 His ambition made Augustus odious: his occasional forgetfulness of ambition alone redeems him.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 17 Perhaps some modern touches here and there Redeem'd it from the charge of nothingness.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxix. 334 A blank ceiling is not to be redeemed by a decorated ventilator.
1922 G. K. Chesterton Man who knew too Much i. 11 Something deep and even cavernous about the setting of the eyes redeemed his animal good looks from the commonplace.
1969 Amer. Hist. Rev. 75 609 Unfortunately, the author's good intentions do not redeem the book from numerous scholarly defects.
2004 T. E. Barlow Question of Women in Chinese Feminism iv. 143 Zhiqing finally has enough sense to fall in love with Chengshu and sleep with her, which apparently redeems her somewhat in the narrator's view.
12. transitive (reflexive). To restore one's good reputation or moral character; to make amends.
ΚΠ
1632 tr. Swedish Discipline ii. 54 Who euer flings away his Armes..shalbe..enforced to make the streets cleane: vntil they redeeme themselues by some worthy exploit doing.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 86 An opportunity to redeem themselves in the Eyes of the world, and to undo some part of the mischief they had done.
1786 J. Burgoyne Heiress iii. ii. 60 How shall I redeem myself, even in my own opinion?
1828 Ann. Reg. 14/1 He seemed anxious to redeem himself by some act that would look like an assertion of independence.
1897 J. Conrad Let. 12 Mar. (1956) 93 The man who can't appreciate the perversity of the Spoils of P. must redeem himself by the most rectilinear truthfulness.
1938 Times 10 Dec. 7/7 I admit that I have had a bad past, but for the last three and a half years I have been straight. I have redeemed myself.
1957 J. Lake & H. Giblo Footlights, Fistfights & Femmes 55 Either her conscience hurt her, or she wanted to redeem herself in the eyes of her fellow actors.
2007 Observer (Nexis) 23 Sept. (Sport section) 18 Marcel Seip redeemed himself for his own goal by scoring in the right net.
ΚΠ
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N8v By Many..a crosse-Track they redeem a bank of mosse Spungie and swelling.
14.
a. transitive. Finance. Of an issuer: to repay (a stock, bond, or other security), esp. at the maturity date. Of a holder: to cash in (a stock, bond, or other security).
ΚΠ
1720 Impartial Enq. Value South-Sea Stock 7 The Premium will by degrees abate, as the Term expires, and the Time of redeeming the Stock draws nearer.
1796 N. Vansittart Inq. State of Finances Great Brit. 34 It would have been the business of the Commissioners to redeem the Stock which bore the highest rate.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 504 A guarantee fund, which..should be sufficient at the end of that term to redeem the annuity at the rate proposed.
1895 Amer. Mag. Civics Jan. 22 Our paper currency has value simply because of popular confidence in the government's honesty and ability to redeem its bills fully and completely.
1942 Amer. Econ. Rev. 32 465 It is probable that many small holders will redeem their bonds in order to purchase durable consumer goods.
1984 A. S. Carron in R. E. Caves & L. B. Krause Austral. Econ. 213 Some seasonal government securities are redeemed as these payments are made, but the full effect of the tax payments is not offset.
2008 Sun (Nexis) 18 Jan. Boyd received a letter from Coia saying the companies would redeem the shares and he would be sent a promissory note.
b. transitive. Originally U.S. Of a holder: to exchange (trading stamps, coupons, etc.) for (also in) goods, a discount, or money. Of an issuer or business: to honour (trading stamps, coupons, etc.) in this way. Also occasionally intransitive.
ΚΠ
1897 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 Dec. 5/1 All stamps are redeemed by the Stamp Company, and every person who presents the required amount of trading stamps receives their choice of any article.
1899 Mansfield (Ohio) News 21 Dec. 5/1 The stamp harpy proposes to redeem his stamps in cheap curios, ceramics and bric-a-brac.
1915 Lit. Digest 5 June 1363/1 Last year there were over $100,000,000 worth of coupons, trading-stamps, and similar premium-giving devices sold. On this vast amount there were only ten to twelve million dollars' worth redeemed.
1989 Guardian 23 June 25/4 Public confidence in the stamp empires was growing, reflected in a tendency to redeem later for that more valuable item..rather than trade in quick.
1990 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 1 June b1 [He] hammered United with complaints after it refused to redeem the $35-off coupons.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Nov. c8/3 [She]..was preparing to redeem her frequent-flier miles on Northwest Airlines for a vacation to Hawaii .
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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