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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:

The proposal of Alcibiades was civilly declined; the promised sum paid to his faithless steward, and the necklace, given by Phidias, redeemed.

There was still time to redeem the past, and carry out all my frustrated intentions, after the expiration of one year of abeyance and exile.

Whosoever redeems the shepherd from the danger of lions, he added, as he climbed up the last ascents, will be the great benefactor.

Jill was already trying to redeem her promise, as she hovered like a tall slim shadow behind her mother's chair in the twilight.

His is a face to shame the selfish, redeem the skeptic, alarm the wicked, and cheer to new effort the weary and heavy-laden.

Many families parted with all but necessary wearing apparel to redeem the sufferers, and private houses were turned into hospitals for their relief.

He was quick to discern the smallest glimpse of merit; he was indulgent even to gross improprieties, when accompanied by any redeeming talent.

Persecution for Faith's sake is most abhorrent, yet sincerity and zeal may render it respectable; but this bill has not one redeeming feature.

There must be fresh discoveries of truth and duty every day; and fresh inquisition made into the heights and depths of Redeeming Love.

In the United States itself the 'Great American desert' was being redeemed, while American railways still had millions of western acres to sell.

And, again, spring carols deceptive songs of liberation and redemption in a man's heart, as if it was in its power to liberate and redeem.

The virtual gold dollar would then be that varying quantum of gold bullion in which each dollar of these certificates could be redeemed.

And since his return to heaven, how often, and in how many ways, have his redeemed people put his forbearance to the proof!

Can we, in a world where so few men have in any degree redeemed their inheritance, neglect a nature so rich and so manifestly progressive?

If failure be humiliating, it is redeemed by the very act and attitude of perseverance, and the self-denial and scorn of ease which it involves.

Their most arduous and perilous conflict is passed; and millions comforted, enlightened, and redeemed will reap the reward, and enter into their labors.

The elect entered into life with the seal of predestination on their birth, redeemed, to be justified, to be sanctified, and finally to be glorified.

When any player fails to at once make a suitable remark he must pay a forfeit, which can only be redeemed by music or recitation.

For this they would stipulate, whenever peace is concluded, to furnish the funds for redeeming all, or a great part of the paper.

Redemption's plan for each sinful world is somewhat similar to ours, so that there is a oneness in the whole family of the redeemed.

No amount of labor could redeem the fault of a drama which conveyed moral precepts in the classic solemnity of select and studied periods.

Such souls are, in a manner, so to speak, half redeemed, who being made sensible of their bondage, groan and pant for a Redeemer.

It may be objected that many who profess to be thus redeemed from all iniquities, to be born again, do not continue to live better lives.

Apparent evils are those which cause us to suffer but a moment and redeem themselves by subsequent advantages: as, for instance, remedies or chastisements.

He has from the start been getting remittances from John Bull in the guise of loans, which, like Micawber, he redeems by more loans.

If he were one whit less greedy, less formidable, less pitiless, I should feel less hostility towards him; he has, fortunately, no redeeming point.

He came stalking in like a king to a coronation, with but one redeeming feature to the look upon his face, an expression which resembled gratitude.

Many such poor wretches as himself had sailed across the seas in the hope of redeeming themselves from debt by years of unremitting toil.

His cruelty was not redeemed even by the sensuous interest the girl might arouse in a reckless nature by her beauty and her charm.

Even that little business last month was a sordid affair, but it was necessary, and I think its strategy redeemed it to some extent.

One redeeming virtue, however, they possessed, which is not always met with among the sedate, thrifty, and moral portion of mankind hospitality!

In each successive pamphlet he reiterates his undertaking to redeem his pledge of a great work, as soon as liberty shall be consolidated in the realm.

His love went down to the bottom of the sea, craving a single chance to redeem itself before the one it had wounded and humiliated.

And with memory, and its redeeming pain of shame, was also the stabbing mortification of knowing that he had made a fool of himself, again!

Heretofore there had at intervals been a faint hope in his heart that by some means he might redeem him, but that was over now.

Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the oppressions of their European brethren!

Amid polite attention and encouraging "Hear, hears" Dick made his way through a few appropriate sentences which his hearty sincerity redeemed from insignificance.

She was too old at the business for that, too hardened, yet with all her effrontery, she had at least one redeeming virtue.

The flour-pelting is the hardest to bear, but the annoyance is redeemed by the burst of laughter from the culprit and the bystanders.

The great fact that confronted us was that without a French army to assist, our English friends would not redeem their contingent pledges.

The participation does not prove the truth of the opinion, but redeems it from the suspicion of being a mere maggot of an individual brain.

The battle of Bull Run stung the loyal masses of the North, and filled them with a determination to redeem their tarnished honor.

His portrait shows us a round, bourgeois face, somewhat heavy perhaps, decorated with a slight mustache, and redeemed by bright and earnest eyes.

It may be that it is again to be the mission of France to redeem (or appear to redeem) the world by a sort of vicarious atonement.

All the intelligences, of whatever order, pertaining to this earth, will be redeemed from death through the resurrection, except the sons of perdition.

He remembered his people whose shield he was called to be, and his moribund heart was pierced with a sharp and redeeming pang.

The redeemed come with songs; and yet there may be the joy, not only of the justified believer, but of the wholly sanctified.

Sister and S. wretchedly seasick; so was nearly everybody, but I redeemed my fame, dancing attendance from baby to the sick ones continually.

Her features had nothing remarkable about them, and her figure was redeemed from insignificance only by the taste and richness of her dress.

Even when its motive has been trivial, its manner of expression has redeemed it from insignificance, the craftsmanship being in itself so true and beautiful.

His portrait shows us a round, bourgeois face, somewhat heavy perhaps, decorated with a slight mustache, and redeemed by bright and earnest eyes.

Being encouraged by the success which I had met in redeeming myself, I again solicited my master for a further chance of completing it.

Unspeakably vile in his private life, the king had no redeeming patriotism, no sense of responsibility to his country for even his public acts.

President Buchanan in redeeming his promise to maintain the Union had gone to lengths which startled and disappointed many of his most devoted supporters.

His imagination, denied a more personal and passionate food, gave itself with fire to the redeeming of an outlaw, and the paying of a spiritual debt.

Count Nesselrode, who found this uncompromising American possessed of redeeming qualities, put himself to no little trouble to arrange an interview with the Czar.

In the earnestness of his studies the prescribed devotions were betimes crowded out, and then he punished himself without mercy to redeem his failures.

The girl grew swiftly towards womanhood, became sleek and well-liking; had a glow and a promise of ripeness which bid fair to be redeemed.

And, above all, it is needful that we do this by redeeming them from their present pain of self-contempt, and by giving them rest.

The embrace was clumsy in its instinctive and unskilled violence, but its clumsiness was redeemed by all his sincerity and all hers.

There is no far-reaching educational failure to admit, nor is there any serious shortcoming from which the educational forces of the country have to redeem themselves.

The stars that redeem the night from darkness, and the beams of red light that beautify the morning, have been united upon its folds.

Her features are so beautiful, that should they come to express even the glimmerings of that which is admirable, the face will be in part redeemed.

The King needed some forgiveness for serious political faults, and, with reason, he believed that the humanists would redeem his character before the people.

Sir Robert redeemed the valuable curiosity at the price of old parchment, and thus recovered what had long been supposed to be irretrievably lost.

The issue department freely issues additional notes in exchange for an equal amount of gold coin or bullion, and on demand redeems notes in gold coin.

His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel.

Barry O'Brien's succinct pages, of concessions delayed until they had lost their grace, and promises redeemed when they had lost their virtue.

I was happy at the prospect of being able to redeem my promise; and with the carcass across my shoulders, I turned triumphantly homeward.

He is sacrificed to redeem the world's inhabitants from the penalties for a weakness (for sin it was not) they had no share in.

His features, somewhat irregular, were redeemed from plainness by a pair of very brilliant dark eyes, and a perfect set of strong white teeth.

Sir Robert redeemed the valuable curiosity at the price of old parchment, and thus recovered what had long been supposed to be irretrievably lost.

Carl did so, and felt a warm glow of pleasure at the thought that perhaps he had redeemed his companion from a fascinating vice.

I am glad you have redeemed your birthday from melancholy, and consecrated it to charity, which, after all, is one of the most surely joyous things.

The Comte de Gontaut was the only handsome member of a very ugly family which had redeemed its want of beauty by unusual cleverness.

I have known them such, that your insolence might have cost each of you your right hand, if not redeemed with a round sum of money.

It is this sort of thing that causes the failure of so many well-meaning attempts to redeem the children of the "slums" or of the street.

The same great theme, the radiating and redeeming power of innocence and purity, was carried over from the first story to the second.

The one redeeming feature in the structure is the cupola; and that is the one thing which Michelangelo bequeathed to the intelligence of his successors.

He explained to the crowd that everyone would be attended to in their various district halls, and that all vouchers already out would be redeemed.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

John Mitchel was transported, and the most trusted of his comrades had pledged their lives to redeem their brother felon at any cost.

I had made two or three attempts to redeem myself from a habit, which I knew was at best useless and foolish, if not prejudicial.

Wherefore, as I set out to say, I think I shall be welcomed thither by the pilgrims' friend, and hear that song of the redeemed.

He had a quick eye for the redeeming parts of a character, and a large toleration for the infirmities of men exposed to strong temptations.

He loses his reward who is unfaithful, but not his eternal life, because it is eternal, and because he has been redeemed from all iniquity.

I should say it intelligently, because there would be an intelligible relation between the sacrifice which love made and the necessity from which it redeemed.

The sublime Emperor of the faithful, the supporter of the faith, the omnipotent master and Sultan of the world, has redeemed his vow.

In these expeditions Gray redeemed his character for skill and courage, albeit he was no longer strong and lithe of limb as he had been.

I want fine clothes, as I used to have; I want money to buy food, pay debts, redeem my mortgaged land, and many things more.

One impulsive attempt to redeem it she had made, we know; but it had failed, and, by rendering her suspect, had made reparation more difficult.

Archie Harmon had one instinct, or quality, which redeemed him from total insignificance and raised him above the level of an amiable and harmless animal.

Yes, it was the only redeeming love which Alicia Vernon had ever known, and it had in it a strange element of nobility and perfidy.

It at length deigned to shed upon me its redeeming light, and revived in my mind ideas worthy of my birth and my early education.

If the Serbians were to maintain their supremacy over the redeemed brethren, it was going to be a case of the tail trying to wag the dog.

He may insert a terse bit of explanation to clear away obscurity or may add a piquant touch that will redeem a story from dullness.

William Smith redeemed his own character by coming forward with honest manliness, and acknowledging but is not of the slightest importance to me.

They would play an as yet incalculable part in redeeming the world from the wild orgy of competition that was now afflicting it.

When the war began, banks found it impossible to secure this hoarded coin to redeem their notes and were compelled to suspend specie payment completely.

And it was indeed an inborn good taste which redeemed Ernest's natural carelessness in those personal matters in which young men usually take a pride.