redemptory
adj/ɹɪˈdɛm(p)təɹi/
1
Paid as ransom; serving to redeem.
- Omega sings the Exsequies, / And Hector's redemptory prise.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC: