unredeemedadj.n.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈdiːmd/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈdimd/ A. adj.† 2. Unrectified, unremedied. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Of a territory, possession, debt, etc.: not redeemed; not recovered or released.In quot. 1896: not liberated, cf. irredeemed adj.
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the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > lost > not redeemed or recovered
unredeemed1480
unransomed1554
1480 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 71/1 Þe said landis ar ȝit vn Redemyt or quit out.
1499–1500 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 365 Geve the sadis landis remanis unredemyt be the sade space of vij yeris efter the yschey of thame than the sade reversione to be exspyrit.
1554 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V (1885) 415 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 If the said silver platte be..unranesomid or redemid of the owners.
1572 N. Roscarrock in J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie sig. C.iij Caparisons ther fixed hang,..With armors fully furnished, and gauntlets vnredemd.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongelost,..vnredeemed, or Vnreleased.
1789 S. Osgood et al. Let. 15 June in G. Washington Papers (1989) Presidential Ser. III. 2 The Capital of the Domestic Debt may..receive considerable augmentation from..the liquidated amount of unredeemed Bills of the old Emission.
1856 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 592/1 The far greater part of the globe is yet unredeemed from the wild beast and the wild hunter.
1896 Daily News 16 Oct. 5/3 The most elaborate [wreath] being sent by the other ‘unredeemed’ Italian city of Trieste.
1959 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 53 401 The absence of a Moldavian Foreign Minister may reflect its sensitive relationship to neighboring Communist Rumania, of which it is in reality an unredeemed ethnic territory.
2006 P. Buhle Tim Hector ii. 77 Antiguan property continued to fall to merchants, by way of unredeemed debts over the last decades of the nineteenth century.
b. spec. Not recovered from pawn. Also in figurative contexts.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adjective] > relating to pawnbroking > pawned > not recovered from pawn
unredeemed1653
1653 J. Lilburne Defensive Declar. against Unjust Sentence of his Banishment 4 While my wife in England..being forced to sell a great part of her houshold-stuffe, and to pawn other of it, yet unredeemed.
1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 27 A piece of St. Andrews finger covered with an ounce of Silver pawn'd by a Monastery for forty pound, was left unredeemed at the dissolution of it.
1742 H. Fielding Miss Lucy in Town 15 I have too much value for your Lordship's Honour, to have it left in pawn. Besides, I have more Right Honourable Honour in my hands unredeemed already, than I know what to do with.
1800 Parl. Reg. 1797–1802 XII. 380 There never had occurred a single instance..in which the article sold as an unredeemed pledge had produced any surplus whatever to the person pawning the article.
1881 E. F. Poynter Among the Hills xiii. 169 Teapot and candle-sticks both had long ago been pledged and unredeemed.
1921 H. G. Moulton Financial Organization of Society (1922) xxviii. 700 Profits are also often derived from the sale of unredeemed property that has been pledged.
2012 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 26 July 343 Pawnbrokers were then left with stockrooms full of unredeemed goods and many went bankrupt.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > put right or amended > not
incorrect1435
unremedied1469
unamended1525
unredeemed1526
uncured1548
unretouched1856
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. YYYviiv That no circumstaunce shulde be left vnredemed, that myght let thy saluacion.
3. Not saved or delivered from sin or damnation.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > unpardonableness > [adjective] > and unpardoned
unsalveda1240
unredeemed1548
unpalliated1680
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adjective] > affected by
unsalveda1240
damned1393
reprobate?a1425
prescit?a1450
losta1533
reprobated1541
condemned1543
unredeemed1548
devoted1611
unsaved1648
non-elect1650
presciteda1660
damning1662
unelected1836
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Iviiiv Ther shuld be made..prayer for the dead to..release them wyth al (as otherwyse vnredemed and payned).
1597 J. Dove Serm. Paules Crosse 65 But these things..cannot bee,..that the prince of this world should be cast out, that the diuell should bee abolished, if yet the greatest part of men are vnredeemed.
1663 Bp. J. Taylor Righteousness Evangelicall Describ’d (Wing T360) 82 The state of a carnal, unredeemed, unregenerate person.
1749 W. Law Spirit of Prayer i. ii. 90 Our redemption is this new birth; if this is not done,..we are still unredeemed.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xviii. 246 Breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region.
1909 Daily Chron. 6 July 3/3 Man is still unredeemed and unrepentant, smug, self-complacent and misunderstanding.
2013 Forward (Nexis) 11 Oct. 1 Jesus was the messiah and would come back again despite the fact that he died in an unredeemed world.
4. Unmitigated; unalleviated; not tempered by any good quality or feature.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective]
woughc888
litherc893
frakeda900
sinnyc950
unrighteouseOE
baleOE
manOE
unfeleOE
ungoodc1000
unwrasta1122
illc1175
nithec1175
wickc1175
hinderfulc1200
quedec1275
wickedc1275
wondlichc1275
unkindc1325
badc1330
divers1340
wrakefula1350
felonousc1374
flagitiousc1384
lewdc1386
noughta1387
ungoodly1390
unquertc1390
diverse1393
felona1400
imperfectc1400
unfairc1400
unfinec1400
unblesseda1425
meschant?c1450
naughtyc1460
feculent1471
sinister1474
noughty?1490
ill-deedya1500
pernicious?1533
scelerous1534
naught1536
goodlyc1560
nefarious1567
iron1574
felly1583
paganish1587
improbate1596
malefactious1607
villain1607
infand1608
scelestious1609
illful1613
scelestic1628
inimicitious1641
infandous1645
iniquous1655
improbous1657
malefactory1667
perta1704
iniquitous1726
unracy1782
unredeemed1799
demoralized1800
fetid1805
scarlet1820
gammy1832
nefast1849
disvaluable1942
badass1955
bad-assed1962
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated
properc1430
arrant1639
erranta1720
defecated1796
unredeemed1799
blank1854
first class1868
prize1903
mucking1917
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon II. xii. 312 The meanness and mercenariness of his spirit were unredeemed by a single virtue.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xii. 278 The unredeemed ugliness is that of a slothful People.
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ vi. 320 The villain of the piece, who is..an unredeemed and impossible blackguard.
1938 E. Waugh Scoop 24 Surroundings of unredeemed squalor.
1984 M. Hocking Good Daughters (1987) iv. 68 Somewhere upstairs Katia was practising the violin, a desolate sound unredeemed by evidence of talent.
2008 New Yorker 26 May 48/2 American politics would be an ugly, unredeemed business for decades to come.
5. Of a promise, possibility, etc.: not carried out or realized; unfulfilled.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [adjective] > not done, performed, or carried out
undonec1380
unsped1390
unperformed1442
unwroughtc1480
unaccomplished1525
unexecuted1585
unled1586
uneffected1592
unacted1594
uncommitted1598
unhatched1601
unachieved1603
unpaida1616
unperpetrated1646
undischarged1709
uninflicted1757
unredeemed1812
untransactedc1825
unenacted1827
undelivered1895
1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 7 Dec. 770/2 Your promise has remained unredeemed.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. ii. ix The great gulf of unredeemed possibilities.
1939 R. S. Rouček Politics of Balkans ii. 12 Civil rights are still an unredeemed promise.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Editorial section) 30 He offered an unconditional promise..that he would give the British people a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. That unredeemed pledge haunts his leadership.
B. n.
With the. With plural agreement. Unredeemed people (sense A. 3) as a class. Also occasionally with singular agreement: an unredeemed person.
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1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 301 What can be the reason of this expression..if it be not to distinguish these few redeemed ones of these Nations, from the great number of the unredeemed in the same.
1752 W. Law Way to Divine Knowlege i. 13 Where this Faith is not, there is the true, complete Infidel, the Man of the Earth, the Unredeemed..that is dead in Trespasses and Sins.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 140 He stood With eye of all the unredeemed most sad.
1955 F. O' Connor Wise Blood x. 167 The unredeemed are redeeming theirselves and the new jesus is at hand!
2013 R. Ehren Me, Myself & Eye ix. 98 The attitude of a Christian elevates above the negative character and deeds of the unredeemed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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