redemption
pronunciation
How to pronounce redemption in British English:
UK [rɪˈdempʃn]
How to pronounce redemption in American English:
US [rɪˈdempʃn]
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- Noun:
- (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
- repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)
- the act of purchasing back something previously sold
Word Origin
- redemption (n.)
- mid-14c., "deliverance from sin," from Old French redemcion (12c.) and directly from Latin redemptionem (nominative redemptio) "a buying back, releasing, ransoming" (also "bribery"), noun of action from past participle stem of redimere "to redeem, buy back," from red- "back" (see re-) + emere "to take, buy, gain, procure" (see exempt). The -d- is from the Old Latin habit of using red- as the form of re- before vowels. In the Mercian hymns, Latin redemptionem is glossed by Old English alesnisse.
Example
- 1. His answer was that service brought redemption and renewal .
- 2. But it is certainly not a simple path to redemption .
- 3. The religious ethos is about redemption , self-abnegation and surrender to god .
- 4. For some crimes and for offenders with multiple prior convictions redemption takes considerably longer .
- 5. There was no new world to populate no redemption awaiting mankind on distant shores .