Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-DEMP'TION
RE-DEMP'TION, n. [Fr.; It. redenzione; Sp. redencion; from L. redemptio. See Redeem.]
- Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
- Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.
- Repurchase, as of lands alienated. – Lev. xxv. Jer. xxxii.
- The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged, with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
- Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders.
- In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ. – Dryden. Nelson. In whom we have redemption through his blood. – Eph. i. Col. i.
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