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redemptionary

noun

redemptionary

noun

Etymology From redemption + -ary.

1

One who is, or may be, redeemed; one who is set at liberty, or released from a bond, by paying compensation or fulfilling stipulated conditions.

  • […]be admitted in the said society, but as redemptionaries, which will be very chargeable1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

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