Definition of Redemptioner

1. n. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

Definition of Redemptioner

1. Noun. An immigrant, generally from the 18th or 19th century, that gained passage to America by selling themselves as an indentured servant. ¹

2. Noun. Someone who redeems oneself, such as from debt or servitude. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Redemptioner

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Redemptioner

redemanded
redemanding
redemands
redemise
redemises
redemonstrate
redemonstrated
redemonstrates
redemonstrating
redemptible
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redemption game
redemptional
redemptionaries
redemptionary
redemptioner (current term)
redemptioners
redemptionist
redemptionists
redemptions
redemptive
redemptorist
redemptory
redenied
redenies
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redenominated
redenominates
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redented

Literary usage of Redemptioner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Code of Civil Procedure: Of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond (1872)
"If property be so redeemed by a other'" redemptioner, either the judgment debtor or another t&'rmay redemptioner may, ..."

2. The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"If property be so redeemed by a ot°herror redemptioner, either the judgment debtor or another tSn'o'r'may redemptioner may, within sixty days after the last ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"The court may extend the statutory period within which redemption is to be made if the circumstances render it equitable,* but if the redemptioner does not ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... is erroneous. money to the purchaser of the tax title in payment of the amount due by the redemptioner, which the purchaser refused to receive, ..."

5. Amendments to the Codes of California: Passed at the Twentieth Session of by California (1874)
"A redemptioner may exercise his right to redeem land sold on execution if no ... redemptioner may, within sixty days after the or other last redemption, ..."

6. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1909)
"10 CAREER AND OBSERVATIONS OF A HIGH GRADE redemptioner Extracts from the " Diary of John Harrower, 1773-1776." American Historical Review, vol. vi, 72-106, ..."

7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"... the right of redemption, the court should give the statute a liberal construction in favor of the redemptioner. Such is the rule as I understand it, ..."

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