Definitions for the word "redeem" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v.
1 recover by expenditure of effort or by a stipulated payment. 2 make a single payment to cancel (a regular charge or obligation). 3 convert (tokens or bonds etc.) Into goods or cash. 4 deliver from sin and damnation. 5 make up for; be a compensating factor in (has one redeeming feature). 6 (foll. By from) save from (a defect). 7 refl. Save (oneself) from blame. 8 purchase the freedom of (a person). 9 save (a person''s life) by ransom. 10 save or rescue or reclaim. 11 fulfil (a promise). redeemable adj. [latin emo buy]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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