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Definition of Redemption
1. Noun. (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil.
Generic synonyms: Deliverance, Delivery, Rescue, Saving
Specialized synonyms: Absolution, Remission, Remission Of Sin, Remittal, Conversion, Rebirth, Spiritual Rebirth, Atonement, Expiation, Propitiation
Category relationships: Divinity, Theology
Derivative terms: Redeem, Redemptional
2. Noun. Repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock).
Generic synonyms: Quittance, Repayment
Derivative terms: Redeem
3. Noun. The act of purchasing back something previously sold.
Generic synonyms: Purchase
Derivative terms: Buy Back, Redeem, Repurchase
Definition of Redemption
1. n. The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
Definition of Redemption
1. Noun. the act of redeeming or something redeemed ¹
2. Noun. the recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article ¹
3. Noun. salvation from sin ¹
4. Noun. rescue upon payment of a ransom ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redemption
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redemption
Literary usage of Redemption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It is the office He assumed for the redemption of the world by the oblation of
Himself in the vestment of our manhood. He is Altar, Victim, and Priest by an ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"From that subjective sense of need we should not, however, hastily conclude to
the objective necessity of redemption. If, as is commonly held against the ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The contention of the plaintiff is that the provisions of the chapter relating
to "sales under execution," so far as they refer to the right of redemption, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Although mysticism attempted to satisfy the craving for redemption partly by
evasion of the Church's mediation and partly by pressing it into the service of ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Where land is sold for taxes, the purchaser, during the time allowed for redemption,
has a statutory lien on the land for taxes, costs, and interest, ..."
6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"(a) The equity of redemption grew in time to be such a favorite with the courts
of equity, and was so highly cherished and pro- * 159 tected, that it became ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1781)
"LENGTH of time was infixed on by the defendant, as Length of time a bar to the
redemption of a mortgage fought by the plain- Pka;ed » bar и» .rr. , MI • i ..."
8. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1901)
"Equity of redemption barred l>y Time. —The right * 187 of redemption may be barred
by the length of * time. The analogy between the right in equity to ..."
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