REDEEMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redeemed mean? 

• REDEEMED (adjective)
  The adjective REDEEMED has 1 sense:

1. saved from the bondage of sin

  Familiarity information: REDEEMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDEEMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Saved from the bondage of sin

Synonyms:

ransomed; redeemed

Similar:

saved (rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

 Context examples 

In the morning he paid every bill, gave Maria three months' advance on the room, and redeemed every pledge at the pawnshop.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When was redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The country detective was a stout, puffy, red man, whose face was only redeemed from grossness by two extraordinarily bright eyes, almost hidden behind the heavy creases of cheek and brow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth—who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We went arm-in-arm to the public-house where the carrier put up, and I promised, on the road, to write to her. (I redeemed that promise afterwards, in characters larger than those in which apartments are usually announced in manuscript, as being to let.) We were greatly overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void made in my heart, I had one made that day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a winter late in redeeming his promise, but redeemed it was, for the last, least Silva got a pair of shoes, as well as Maria herself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had redeemed herself for all that she had lacked, rising up at last, true woman, superior to the iron rule of bourgeois convention.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By means of them he redeemed all his pledges, paid most of his bills, and bought a new set of tires for his wheel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When he had squared every debt, redeemed every pledge, he would still have jingling in his pockets a princely $43.90.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Also, he paid the other tradesmen in full, redeemed his suit and his bicycle, paid one month's rent on the type-writer, and paid Maria the overdue month for his room and a month in advance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)