Word Finder - redeem

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To recover ownership of something by buying it back.

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To liberate by payment of a ransom.

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To set free by force.

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To save, rescue

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To clear, release from debt or blame

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To expiate, atone (for)

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To convert (some bond or security) into cash

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To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).

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To repair, restore

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To reform, change (for the better)

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To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.

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To reclaim

But they have been much subdivided, and the vassals may by law redeem them.

The rich were allowed to redeem themselves, but the poor were condemned to slavery.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

In a few years the bank failed, and the state in 1831 borrowed money to redeem the depreciated notes issued by the bank.

Villeins and serfs in France rise gradually in the social scale, redeem many of the onerous services of feudalism and practically acquire tenant-right on most of the plots occupied by them.

The On the 1st of June the Reaction Riksdag, as it was generally called, removed to the capital; and it was now that the French ambassador and the crown prince Gustavus called upon the new senators to redeem their promise as to a reform of the constitution which they had made before the elections.

Do thou in me make peace, 0 light-bringer, mayest thou redeem my soul from this born-dead (existence)."

During the journey Louis won over the seigneurs of Croy, the principal counsellors of the duke of Burgundy, and persuaded Philip to allow him to redeem the Somme towns for the sum stipulated in the treaty of Arras.

The French war indemnity enabled him to redeem a considerable portion of the state debt and to remit certain taxes.

On the other hand, the Wekerle ministry was pledged to a measure of franchise reform, a pledge which they showed no eagerness to redeem, though the granting of universal suffrage in the Austrian half of the Monarchy had made such a change inevitable.

The only contributions which redeem these hundred years and more from the charge of disrespect to the native muse come from the pen of the Sempills (q.v.).

To redeem man from this state of guilt, and to recover him from corruption, the Son of God became incarnate, assuming man's nature into union with His own, so that in Him were two natures in one person.

For, if He merely may redeem but must punish, then His greatest deeds on our behalf wear an aspect of caprice, or suggest unknown if not unknowable motives.

He who during his lifetime did not become one of the elect, who did not completely redeem himself, has to go through a severe process of purification on the other side of the grave, till he too is gathered to the blessedness of the light.

Bailey Saunders, who has laboured to redeem his character from the suspicions generally current with English readers.

While Mansur was thus losing Africa and Spain, he was trying to redeem the losses the empire had sustained on the northern frontier by the Byzantines.

Nehemiah was faced with old abuses, and vehemently contrasted the harshness of the nobles with the generosity of the exiles who would redeem their poor countrymen from slavery.

It allowed the chief to call for the labour of any district, and to employ it in planting, house or canoe-building,supplying food on the occasion of another chief's visit, &c. This power was often used with much discernment; thus an unpopular chief would redeem his character by calling for some customary service and rewarding it liberally, or a district would be called on to supply labour or produce as a punishment.

When the islands were given as security for the princess's dowry, there seems reason to believe that it was intended to redeem the pledge, because it was then stipulated that the Norse system of government and the law of St Olaf should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland.

But the victorious Hats refused to redeem the pledges which they had given before the elections.

He had little time to redeem himself, and he kicked himself mentally for not walking into the room that would turn him into the Death he was supposed to be.

His public life presents none of those acts of devotion and self-sacrifice which often redeem a career characterized by errors, follies and even crimes.

He sent his Son (whom Marcion probably regarded as a manifestation of the supreme God Himself) 3 down to this earth in order to redeem men.

A mockery of popular institutions, under the name of a burgher council, indeed existed; but this was a mere delusion, and must not be confounded with the system of local government by means of district burgher councils which that most able man, Commissioner de Mist, sought to establish during the brief government of the Batavian Republic from 1803 to 1806, when the Dutch nation, convinced and ashamed of the false policy by which they had permitted a mere money-making association to disgrace the Batavian name, and to entail degradation on what might have been a free and prosperous colony, sought to redeem their error by making this country a national colonial possession, instead of a slavish property, to be neglected, oppressed or ruined, as the caprice or avarice of its merchant owners might dictate.

It was Secretary Fessenden's policy to avoid a further increase of the circulating medium, and to redeem or consolidate the temporary obligations outstanding.

Presumably William died before he could redeem his pledge.

At the ensuing diet of 1769, when the Hats returned to power, Fersen was again elected marshal of the diet; but he made no attempt to redeem his pledges to the crown prince Gustavus, as to a very necessary reform of the constitution, which he had made before the elections, and thus involuntarily contributed to the subsequent establishment of absolutism.

Another portion of the heritage of Alfonse, the Venaissin, was ceded to the papacy to redeem an old promise.

Bengel (better known as a commentator), Zinzendorf, Butler and the Erskines helped to redeem the time from the reproach of being the dark age of Protestantism.

Christ must be God; for if not, the devil would have had a natural claim on him, and he would have been no more exempt from death than the other children of Adam; he must be man, if his blood were indeed to redeem us.

The youth of the king and the good reputation of the earl marshal were a sufficient guarantee that, for some years at any rate, an honest attempt would be made to redeem the pledge.

By 1894 the state was able to redeem them to the amount of 200 million gulden, including all those for one gulden.

The humble realize the futility of trying to redeem themselves.

Why go back to the law, which can never redeem the guilty sinner?

Also, there may be limitations on where you can use the card and how many rewards you can redeem annually.

Here, you can see how many points you have earned with an applicable rewards card and redeem them for travel or merchandise.

You can redeem Gymbucks at all Gymboree stores or at Gymboree.com.

You take it to your optometrist's office to redeem it.

If so, must He not redeem?

The more you win the more bling you earn to redeem for exciting prizes.

But can the law, which utterly condemns the sinner, can it redeem the sinner?

I bought the paper, trouble is, to get the cd you have to redeem a coupon at a certain shop.

Coupon redemption If you have a coupon redemption If you have a coupon, you can redeem it on the last page of the checkout process.

Put it this way if I were to release the demos it would completely redeem her as an artist.

We Brits need to become global healers, to redeem our national karma.

The bible says that Christ had to die on the cross to redeem humanity from its fallen state.

Augustine had taught only the predestination of the elect which he understood in terms of God's positive choice to redeem.

The Bill is intended to strengthen the protection of public funds through improved controls over who may redeem optical vouchers.

West Virginia's share of the Virginia debt which existed when West Virginia was set off from Virginia has not yet been determined (see below, § History), but other than this the state has no debt, and the contraction of a state debt other than " to meet casual deficits in the revenue, to redeem a previous liability of the state, to suppress insurrection, repel invasion or defend the state in time of war " is forbidden by the constitution.

The latter part of this work, covering the years 1199-1209, is perhaps an attempt to redeem the promise, which he had made in the epilogue to the Chronica, of a continuation dealing with the reign of John.