redemption

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "deliverance from sin," from Old French redemcion (12c.) and directly from Latin redemptionem (nominative redemptio) "a buying back, releasing, ransoming" (also "bribery"), noun of action from past participle stem of redimere "to redeem, buy back," from red- "back" (see re-) + emere "to take, buy, gain, procure" (see exempt). The -d- is from the Old Latin habit of using red- as the form of re- before vowels. In the Mercian hymns, Latin redemptionem is glossed by Old English alesnisse.

Example Sentences forredemption

Was there no prophet, no redemption, no mediator for such as these?

But he still had something to do, the final act made possible by his redemption.

She still lived, however, and that was sufficient for the redemption of her sins.

That God will do his part in the redemption of men is set before us in the cross.

If the redemption is to be a moral redemption, the last detail of the method must be moral.

I fought with Goethe for the redemption of a soul sold to the Devil.

Highly intellectual also is his explanation of the necessity of redemption.

This giant labor of men, this obstinacy in living, is their excuse, is redemption.

You are going to try and redeem the rich, or, at least, to show them the way of redemption.

We are not to believe in them in spite of the plan of redemption; but, because of the plan of redemption.

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