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Definition of redeem:

  • (verb) save from sins
  • (verb) restore the honor or worth of
  • (verb) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
  • (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat
  • (verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes)
  • (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers

Sentence Examples:

I came up here for a chance of redeeming myself, and your big, glorious North has made a man of me.

He screamed "I've been working all my life, and I haven't a few dollars to redeem my old ship!"

It is often represented in the Bible that redeemed men in the kingdom of heaven will be a race of kings.

Many a man similarly affected has retrieved his position, redeemed his character and become a virtuous member of society.

I redeemed my vow on the 14th of May by hanging on her picture the silver heart I promised.'

A few of the cards were redeemed at the rate named; then the government broke faith, and payment ceased.

One or two fortunate illustrations redeemed every defect, so far as the audience (but not the speaker) was concerned.

The mountains, however, do their best to redeem the landscape, and the scenery, as desolate scenery, is very fine.

The interest was to run, and the notes remain out until sixty days after notice of readiness to redeem.

Change the economic environment, says the Socialist, and, if you make the right change, the race will be redeemed.

The time we have lost cannot be recalled; should we not then redeem and improve the little which remains?

"We are going to bear in our union and life the flaming standard of a revolution that will yet redeem society."

They all have faith in their cause and in their ability to redeem their obligations when the war ends.

He was also the new Sun of Righteousness which was to renew the world, or redeem mankind from sin.

It is impossible, I find, to enjoy this happiness without redeeming time, and maintaining a spiritual frame of mind.

Commercial paper, which for the most part was the collateral for these certificates, had already been redeemed.

Would to heaven that the shedding of mine own blood, drop by drop, could redeem the captivity of Judah!

"Yes, yes, be happy, Marie," he said, "for I am very happy myself, and all our sufferings are redeemed."

"Let Randolph," he said, "redeem his own fault; I cannot break the order of battle for his sake."

The only redeeming feature about them is that they are themselves fairly good to eat, although with too many bones.

Indeed, the only redeeming feature in his career as a pupil up to date, was his natural love for reading.

It is even then, in the very hour of redeeming mercy, of renewing grace, that your severest trials will begin.

Only I would remind them of that greatest act in all history, by which the world was redeemed.

You are near being redeemed from my power, and the power of death alone divides you from your Savior's presence.

Papa deeded them to me only last Saturday; why should they have deserted at the moment I had redeemed them?

Such was my first capital offense in the matter of protection; redeemed from public condemnation only by obscurity.

All real property sold or pledged to churches may be redeemed on payment of the sum received for the property.

Death is to be one of his angels now to redeem the Constitution and the laws, and to establish liberty.

The only redeeming feature of the business was the opportunity given for social intercourse which accompanied the work.

With his faults, such as they were, he had the redeeming virtue in my eyes of being a keen sportsman.

I got eight dollars for the two of them, and made the time in which to redeem them one month.

All partook of the nature of illusion, from which sense of sight and touch alike seemed powerless to redeem them.

The more our souls taste the sweetness of redeeming love, the more earnest will be our desire to serve others.

Government cannot redeem us from our sins; it will always require all the decency we possess to redeem the government.

Oh tell us, as you near the other side does not faith catch glimpses of the redeemed and the Redeemer?

Indeed, I cannot be happy unless you allow me to redeem my honor, which stands pledged to you for it.

Furthermore, he said, Behold, I am he who was prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people.

Howard would redeem his promise of coming to fetch the articles with which his sister had supplied them.

Mildred redeemed Belle's promise, and between them all they soon fitted Clara for her trip to the country.

A redeeming point is the number of fine trees, which impart a picturesque character to this heterogeneous mass of buildings.

One of the few redeeming features in the natural history of plague, is that it at first spreads very slowly.

"I will redeem all mankind, that not one soul shall be lost," said Lucifer; "and surely I will do it."

Donner's death, I thought I had gained sufficient strength to redeem the pledge I had made her before her death.

Incidentally, no government, the entire world over, could have redeemed in gold or silver coin all of its outstanding obligations.

This world, redeemed from the curse and all its results, will be the eternal possession of the righteous.

The green-domed Canal company's offices tower above the smoke and din, redeeming them; they make a noble pile.

There is no monument along the track of succeeding years, which redeems their memory from its deserved reproach.

I felt that I would never be peaceful again till they were redeemed and put back in their old settings.

Four other poems of strong beauty which redeem the rest of the volume, and make it necessary to poetry lovers.

Now, did he suppose that she had not suspected him of being the person who redeemed her necklace?

In Faust Margaret represents the redeeming power, which, at present, upholds Woman, while waiting for a better day.

Dotty was so anxious to redeem her character in everybody's eyes, that she hardly knew what she was doing.

They only who were "redeemed from the earth," as well as "from among men," were capable of learning it.

Also, there is always the off chance that I may manage, mysteriously, to redeem the property in the interim.

It was plain that many felt secretly ashamed, and wished that there would be time to redeem their reputations.

It was too big for her, of course; but the young people clearly must redeem it, and settle there.

And there was not one guiding star, not one redeeming influence, except the utter freedom to be a man.

Buy first, order first, pledge yourself first; and then split your head in order to pay and to redeem!

Stephen Williams, who had been taken captive when a lad of eleven, was redeemed in 1705 with his father.

Pretty soon it began to look like she was going to come through as Amos Hurd did when he was redeemed.

I've pledged my word and honor to see this undertaking through, and I mean to redeem it if it ruins me.

In this October number many of the redeemed testify and give thanks; and not coldly, but with passionate gratitude.

In this October number many of the redeemed testify and give thanks; and not coldly but with passionate gratitude.

This is the calling and election of the redeemed; but oh, how few there are that make them sure!

The Faith Cure rests on the declarations of the Bible, that faith will remove mountains, and redeem the lost.

He caught her to him, roughly and awkwardly, in a desperate embrace, which the kindly dusk veiled and redeemed.

This is a redeeming principle in the human mind, and greatly encourages the hope that truth will finally triumph.

Tell him, Joey, I am hoping to redeem a year of my life that in folly and weakness I threw away.

The only redeeming thing about the expedition was that he himself could get a few strokes in the demonstration.

He is prepared to redeem their loss by the heaviest sacrifices, for they are dearer to him than wife or child.

He enters the gates of the everlasting city, amid the rejoicing of angels, and the shouts of his redeemed.

Berwick was held to be dry and stiff, but he was a faithful friend, and well redeemed his promise.

Why, two hundred guineas would have gone far to redeem you all three, and to maintain you for a great while.

It was while they were carrying him off the field he had redeemed that he first saw Helen Phillips.

And his silence was the measure of his gratitude for the one redeeming feature of the whole miserable affair.

The Almighty wants you, with your innocence and purity and strength, to redeem the nations that sit in darkness.

Is there any doubt as to the pledge to overthrow Packard, which the Great Beast helped Hayes to redeem?

It was doubtless the intention of King James to redeem his gun-money coins, month by month, as opportunity permitted.

He then told them how the others had been massacred, and begged that he might be redeemed with merchandise.

Periods which display great national failings or vices, are those also which bring to light distinguished and redeeming virtues.

I do not say that it is impossible that they should be called on to redeem a greater amount than this.

Shall we declare in this fundamental measure a determination to redeem the whole national debt within a period of twenty-five years?

I have come to ask you to redeem the solemn promise made to my father to pay him twenty thousand dollars.

He aspired to redeem the honor of his country, and to place it in a point of giving law to nations.

Pole and Smith might well call it barbarous; that it was fast becoming English was its one redeeming feature.

Not a single pledge had she redeemed; not a single burden had been removed, not a single abuse redressed.

It was partly too, she thought, absence of singer and audience that redeemed both the music and the words.

He aspired to redeem the honor of his country, and to place it in a point of giving law to nations.

Did he rejoice in his honor redeemed, or grieve for the human being at whose breast he was about to aim?

Religion with him took the narrowest priestly form, redeemed only by the native gentleness and tenderness of his disposition.

The bank sank a large part of its stock, but maintained its integrity, and continued to redeem its notes.

That under this redemption lay the idea of a new title to the lands redeemed may be regarded as questionable.

Naomi naturally desired that it might be redeemed, as both herself and Ruth would be greatly benefited if it were.

Will it not be better to redeem the error now, than to endure the agony of remorse for fifty years?

In winters of famine the public are sometimes allowed to pledge property without paying any interest upon it when redeemed.

She was a cold and selfish woman, but her one redeeming trait was her affection for her son.

He must not stamp the poor shell from sight; he must redeem it as his patient suffering had redeemed him.

I find, too, that even this just redeemed soil is tenanted; here are eyes that find in it the charms of home.

The redeeming feature of their passion is that they loved with true love also, and with a love which grew.

To murmur against one's trials after being redeemed, means to murmur against being developed for one's eternal destiny.