REDEEMER

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• REDEEMER (noun)
  The noun REDEEMER has 2 senses:

1. a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

2. someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.)

  Familiarity information: REDEEMER used as a noun is rare.

• REDEEMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Christ; Deliverer; Good Shepherd; Jesus; Jesus Christ; Jesus of Nazareth; Redeemer; Savior; Saviour; the Nazarene

Instance hypernyms:

Logos; Son; Word (the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus))

Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Instance hyponyms:

El Nino (the Christ child)

Derivation:

redeem (save from sins)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("redeemer" is a kind of...):

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

Derivation:

redeem (convert into cash; of commercial papers)

redeem (pay off (loans or promissory notes))

redeem (exchange or buy back for money; under threat)

 Context examples 

Touching that same slaying of the Redeemer, it was a bad business.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Profectus BioSciences of New York are developing and testing the candidate quadrivalent VesiculoVax vaccine, with support from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Redeemer’s University in Nigeria.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

Bethink ye how sad a thing it would be that the blood of the Redeemer should be spilled to no purpose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could go back and be his comforter—his pride; his redeemer from misery, perhaps from ruin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles—their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)