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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:

Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem?

Suffer a child of man, regenerate and redeemed, to begin life anew.

The redeeming feature of this comment, in my opinion, is its brevity.

Blemish was always in hopes of being able to redeem his position.

If the goods are not redeemed within a twelvemonth, they are sold.

It assumes but one duty and that is to redeem the illiterates.

The stain is blotted from my name, I have redeemed mine honor.

Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem?

Is it to be redeemed by sending among them secret or avowed agents?

A sentimental, coquettish air redeemed what would otherwise have been an inane expression.

It was they that redeemed the whole man from total insignificance.

His mistake in having granted the armistice had perhaps been redeemed.

The coat had been redeemed, though the silk handkerchief was forfeited.

Still that could not matter, since charity redeemed and purified all.

By the ending of it, he had redeemed a somewhat rancid life.

A certain energy in the immigrant's face half redeemed this childlike speech.

Never did a good man more splendidly redeem his memory from shame.

He redeemed its character from the disrepute into which it had fallen.

He tried to redeem himself by a rather tardy enthusiasm and succeeded.

The boy's depravity had always been redeemed by a lack of cruelty.

We cannot redeem seven years of selfishness with seven days of self-denial.

The moss had been the one redeeming feature of the roof's ugliness.

One face shines serenely before me, and says, "The world is redeemed!"

Poor and Patterson nobly redeemed themselves in the later operations against Burgoyne.

The people have resolved to redeem the constitution from their polluting hands.

These have half redeemed his forfeit fame, and misled a generous posterity.

Well, then, there is something about me that redeems it from vulgarity.

Yet he redeems the rifle handsomely enough in numbers of other passages.

It is the peculiarity of American slavery, that it has no redeeming features.

Behind all suffering, behind sin and crime, must lie redeeming magnanimity.

It was an unattractive face, with little to redeem it from being hideous.

The frankness of Clem's brutality went far towards redeeming her character.

When he failed to redeem his pledge the merchants sought to recoup themselves.

Your challenge, I am happy to testify, has been more than amply redeemed.

"I have come," said I, "to redeem my pledge, and acquit the innocent."

My fortitude shall redeem me in your opinion, Belinda, and in my own.

Shall gold a father's heart entice, Blood to redeem beyond all price?

This land had become the nation's granary; it was a land redeemed.

A sound of footsteps upon the gravel beneath redeems any further awkwardness.

The only redeeming feature of this prolonged bivouac was the cabin itself.

Are quite good enough to redeem an age from indiscriminate opprobrium and unmitigated contempt?

With what disgraceful peace, with how many lands shall he redeem him?

Adele leaned forward and said huskily, "You got enough money to redeem your contract?"

Gratify me, and so shall your rash footing here to-day stand redeemed.'

The young planter thus pledged was never more ready to redeem himself.

It seemed that no action was to redeem these last annals of their house.

His death, says this text, redeems us from iniquity and purifies us.

The "Breakfast Association" for redeemed men has no equal in its Christ-like work.

He was, in short, a supreme cad, with not a single redeeming feature.

His redeemed and sanctified ones consist only of those who have been confirmed.

How many a place in the mansions of the redeemed would be unfilled!

Their beauty somewhat redeemed the square ugliness of the rest of his face.

A thing made out of the women's earrings had redeemed and delivered them!

He knew life would be unendurable if he returned without redeeming his cowardice.

There is no legal enactment compelling any authority to redeem rupees with gold.

I am firmly convinced that even the worst ruffian has some redeeming qualities.

The only vice which is not redeemed by producing commensurate good, is avarice.

We were all asking, where can that soul redeemed from purgatory have gone?

The peal went forth as if to redeem and consecrate the heathen wilderness.

Give me four rubles, and I will redeem it; it belonged to my father.

"Well, that redeems you a little," thought Lancelot, with his whimsical look.

They were large, clear, and unusually intelligent; they redeemed his homely face.

In the last two years Ralph had been redeeming his former idleness.

The one redeeming feature was that they treated the workers liberally first.

To him the tribe looks to avenge or redeem a kinsman's death or misfortune.

He had not any feature which was so good as to redeem this imperfection.

The close of his life went far toward redeeming his wayward career.

Land redeemed from slough would not pay for itself in many years.

Behind all suffering, behind sin and crime, must lie a redeeming magnanimity.

Breathlessly the larger part of the spectators watched to see Dick redeem himself.

Had all my labor, all my despairing hope gone to redeem only ingratitude?

For then this earth more manifestly were the world of the redeemed ones.

Souls also would easily be redeemed from purgatory and innumerable blessings would follow.

The redeeming business in our financial plan of salvation has been altogether overdone.

To my family that oration was the redeeming episode of my early career.

A kind of shyness in the words redeemed them and the girl smiled.

We share his belief and his trust in the omnipotence of redeeming love.

The American people will never stop to reckon the cost of redeeming civilization.

The dress was seized and finally redeemed after damages of a thousand francs!

All ignoble qualities seemed to be combined in his nature without any redeeming virtues.

His tender, healing words to us are to redeem our speech from all harshness.

Look for the last supreme touch that redeems them from insipid commonplace.

Now for the forfeits, for you will probably have a fine pile to redeem.

He shall take upon himself infirmities and disgrace in order to redeem the world.

Have they been redeemed by Jesus-Christ, and are they capable of beatitude and damnation?

I will redeem my pledge and not trespass on your time for one instant.

Solicitude and pain you indeed once caused me, but this moment has redeemed it all.

"Heaven is made for redeemed sinners and hell for the proud and disobedient."

They are men who have redeemed the cross and rendered the gallows glorious.

He redeems the slowness of his approach by the fury of his spring.

"Let us see what you can do to redeem the ignominy of your impudent giggling!"

What a young man neglects before his thirtieth birthday, he can never redeem.

The casks, however, might be redeemed by paying twenty shillings for each cask.

That rascal has betrayed us, in the hope of redeeming himself with Tonkin.

I implore you to give me a chance, just one, of redeeming my stupid blunder.

Love and labor in alliance, working together, have transforming, redeeming and emancipating power.

The piety of the mother redeemed the impiety of the son's last act.

The Quakers, even, had not at that time redeemed themselves from the opprobrium.

Still we might bestow them on a less squeamish beggar and redeem our pride.

In a month or two their value will have trebled, whichever Government redeems them.